#Embassy

An embassy is a garden where foreign boots are permitted to trample. It combines a lavish residence for staff known as the ambassador’s home with a labyrinth of extraterritoriality. Its inhabitants, guests bearing the title of diplomats, brandish cross-border privileges and often reduce it to a stage for homeland monologues. Guards intended to secure the grounds sometimes deter unwary visitors with consular queues and passport delays. Before long, the embassy becomes a microcosm of sovereignty strewn with paperwork and political accounting behind polite smiles.