Talossan Passport Cover

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I am not a licensed attorney, nor admitted anywhere in the world (even Talossa) to any bar or similar professional legal organization.

That said, I don't interpret 18 U.S.C. § 1543 as prohibiting a Talossan passport per se.

It'd be one thing if we were on a market (black market or otherwise) trying to sell off a "passport" as a means around sanctions, embargoes, or other international disputes. We are not. In fact, it would be plainly obvious to any attorney or judge that a Talossan passport is not a false passport nor a "instrument purporting to be a passport"; it would be instead a true passport, but of a nation which the U.S. does not recognize.

If we were to issue passports, the real threat that I see is not prosecution under that section; it is retaliation against an "assault" on the sovereignty of the United States. I'd imagine that a U.S. Attorney or any federal LEO would take not very kindly to a foreign nation existing within U.S. borders.

I have had a "camouflage" passport for years that I purchased from a purveyor listed in The Economist for the sole purpose of handing to nice man in the ski mask carrying an AK-47 in the process of detaining hostages - they are somewhat more likely to release those who are not American or European.  A Talossan passport held in this way for similar situations might be plausible.