I just read a fascinating book. It's called "The Cosmopolites". It's about the buying and selling of passports around the world. There are rich people who have like 10 passports to help them travel, pay less taxes, etc.

But, to talk about the power in a society, the majority of the book was about stateless people in the UAE and Kuwait. The governments in those countries didn't want to give Kuwaiti or Emirati citizenship to the stateless for fear of what might happen in parliamentary elections. So they went to a very poor country off the coast of Africa called the Comoros and got passports from there for their stateless population. So now, those folks can travel, but still not have any say in their homelands' governments

The problem is entirely a fiction created by the governments to disenfranchise a large minority population. Most of these people were born in Kuwait or the UAE, and had a relative who failed to fill out the paperwork to register as a citizen in the 1960s or 1970s.