People rely on their spatial knowledge to build many other more complex or abstract representations including time, number, musical pitch, kinship relations, morality and emotions.
Historically and generally, tokens are nonsense strings of characters, designed to abstract away from and hide the true goodies, your credit card number.
In America, where voters are terrifically rude about Congress in the abstract, individual congressmen and senators still enjoy considerable fawning and swan about in cars with special number plates.