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All cred to Norway for doing their part to make a passport something usable and something a citizen can show with pride. However not a patch on current New Zealand passport design. Everywhere i take mine out for use i get comments about how cool and yet elegant it looks - inside and out.

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Your comment made me curious about the design of New Zealand passports, which eventually led me to this atlas of passport covers:

https://www.passportindex.org/

Here's New Zealand's distinctive design:

https://www.passportindex.org/countries/nz.png

But I prefer the elegant minimalism from Switzerland:

https://www.passportindex.org/countries/ch.png

De gustibus non est disputandum. :-)

Ugh EU passports look so bad with that butt ugly bordeaux color :D

Beautiful passports make me wish I could collect citizenships.

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