A woman from New Zealand was briefly detained in Kazakhstan after officials questioned whether her country actually existed. They then asked her to point it out on a map that, ironically, didn’t even include New Zealand. Chloe Phillips-Harris, a 28 year old from New Zealand, arrived at an airport in Kazakhstan after being told by the Kazakh embassy that she could receive a visa on arrival using her New Zealand passport. Instead, officials refused her entry, claimed New Zealand was simply a state of Australia, and demanded that she provide an Australian passport. When she argued that New Zealand was an independent country, officials reportedly escorted her to an interrogation room and asked her to identify it on a world map. Ironically, the map did not include New Zealand at all. She was then held in a guard room for roughly a day and a half without food or water, although some guards quietly brought her drinks during the night. Eventually, contacts within Kazakhstan helped her secure the proper documents and gain release. After the ordeal, she later said: “It is corrupt and there are problems, but there are a lot of good people there. It’s just really unfortunate there was a world map that didn’t have New Zealand on it.”(Historic Vids)