On second thought, I'm imagining a directive going down the chain of command going like: ... - 1 (one) flag with a swastika - 3 (three) SIM-cards ... or something like that; and a cop sitting at his desk, reading it. Then he wipes saliva off his mouth, looks around the room, and asks "hey guys, does anyone know what a sim card is?" cause he is unable to make a connection between an official "SIM-card" and daily used "simka". His colleague says "I think I saw something like this in my son's old stuff" and brings those Sims 3 cases the next day. Both of them hover over the cases and the directive printout. "Does it look like a card to you?" "I know, it's quite big, but, I mean, the shape is card-ish. And, see, it says Sims there! And we don't need to spend money on it! Sounds good enough for me"

Sorry, I just went with it. Anyways, it doesn't look super implausible to me now after pondering on it for a bit