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Easy solution: Cattle ear tags for politicians.

A more humane solution would be NASCAR-style jumpsuits, worn by law for all government business, emblazoned with logos of their moneyed sponsors. "Ah, there's my guy, he's the one beholden to land developers."

Of course, I'm not sure how that'd work in Russia. I assume at least some of the criminal masterminds who fill the role of the West's owner class have a, like, inkan [0] or something.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_(East_Asia)#Japanese_usag...

Perhaps as a compromise, a leg band like the ones they use to track birds except with anti-tampering features and a GPS.

This would be handy, and if high ranking unelected officials could wear them too it would be good.

The various UK sagas for lockdown eye checks etc would be easier to monitor.

This would be nice, because we'd finally has some transparency on who they're being sponsored by.

Or branding their faces.

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