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* The Restaurant Karpics in Ankara during World War II was attended by diplomats, spies, and journalists of all sides.
** All of Ankara and Istanbul was like this, really. But Karpics was the "Rick's Bar" of Ankara.
** There were a number of neutral cities that were like this. And in them were often places where "everybody goes to". Refugees often clogged the into the city while they waited to be vetted for their next ticket by a tangle of [[Obstructive Bureaucracy]], bigotry, and [[Properly Paranoid|Proper Paranoia.]] Gaming halls were turned into a sort of Russian Roulette where the winner gets to go pay the bribe money to Mr. Slimy Guy. And in the meantime all the nations around are conducing their intrigues. In short not only were there many [[Casablanca|"Casablancas"]] each of them had a number of "Rick's".
* The New York headquarters of the [[United Nations]] are autonomous such that anyone entering there has effective diplomatic immunity, even if they're on a country's most wanted war criminal/terrorist/dictator shitlist.
** This includes all employees. Do ''not'' tick off the UN janitors.
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