Neue Slowenische Kunst (New Slovenian Art), or NSK, was an art collective formed in 1984 by the Slovenian avant-garde band Laibach. Their intent was to play with “past symbols, images, and philosophical ideas, particularly those that have been used by governments or other institutions to accumulate and hold power” in order to draw attention to the arbitrary boundaries of what makes a nation a legitimate nation.

In 1991, amid the collapse of socialist Yugoslavia, they claimed sovereign state status with art exhibitions performed as de facto territorial claims for the NSK nation. If an NSK work hangs in a country, it’s officially an NSK consulate. Therefore, it’s only appropriate that the art collective issued passports.

Anyone who holds an NSK passport can claim citizenship. Though the NSK State has never been formally recognized, its passports — a symbol of legitimacy despite representing something totally imagined — aided Bosnians in the many border crossings stemming from the 1992–95 Bosnian War. In 2010, NSK citizens held a congress in Berlin to discuss the future possibilities of the imagined state. To this day, anyone can apply for an NSK passport on its website for €32.