How to Become an Honorary Consul for a Tiny Nation
A retired management consultant in a Welsh village runs a country's consulate out of his house — because his wife is from Kiribati and the president asked him in 1996. That's the whole qualification. So can you engineer it on purpose? This episode walks the actual mechanism: the 1963 Vienna Convention's split between career and honorary consuls, why only the sending state can nominate, the receiving state's exequatur veto, and the U.S. geographic filter that means you don't pick a country — you pick a country with a hole shaped like your city. Plus the Easter Island tour operator who…
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