Your nation's technical standards

by **Osway** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 9:40 am

Out of the following categories, which standard(s) do your nation use? I will list the most common ones, but feel free to use a lesser-known one or make up your own.

Electricity supply
All RL countries use AC, but DC supply was used in the past.
The most common voltages are: 115 V, 120 V, 220 V, 230 V and 240 V.
The most common frequencies are 50 Hz and 60 Hz. Usually 60 Hz is used with lower voltages, and 50 Hz is used with higher voltages.

Electric plug socket type
List of most common RL types here

Analogue television
Note that many countries have no analogue television signals because they have completely converted to digital.
PAL (used in most of Europe, E and S Africa, E and S Asia and Oceania)
SECAM (used in France, the former Soviet Union and W Africa)
NTSC (used in North America, Japan and Burma)

Digital television
DVB (used in Europe and Oceania)
ATSC (used in the US, Canada, Mexico, South Korea, Dominican Republic and Honduras)
ISDB (used in Japan, Philippines and Portuguese-speaking Africa)
DTMB (used in China)
DMB (used in South Korea)

Document format
This is the digital format used for exchanging various types of document.
Office Open XML (.docx) developed by Microsoft in 2006.
Word Binary File Format, a series of formats developed by Microsoft in the 1990s.
OpenDocument, an open-source XML-based format developed by OASIS in 2005.
RTF, developed by Microsoft for cross-platform use.
TeX, an advanced typesetting programming language developed by Donald Knuth in 1978.
Uniform Office Format, an open standard developed in China in 2007.
PDF, an open standard for portable documents which contains all the information about the fonts and graphics in it. Developed by Adobe in 1993.

by **Osway** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 9:43 am

Here are Osway's Standards:

Electricity supply: 220 V, 50 Hz
Plug socket type: Type I
Analogue television: None, previously PAL
Digital television: ATSC
Document format: OpenDocument, previously RTF and PDF

by **Islamic Meritocratic Transoxiana** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 9:45 am

AC
220-240 V
50 Hz
Digital
PDF
We're pretty standard.

by **Aikoland** » Tue Jul 14, 2015 8:25 am

Electricity supply: 240 V, 60 Hz
Plug socket type: Type A, Type B, and Type C
Analogue television: We have never had an analog television standard due to being established in the year 2031
Digital television: ATSC
Document format: OpenDocument

by **Estainia** » Tue Jul 14, 2015 8:53 am

No comparison exists in use of modern nations today that could adequately compare Imperial technology to that of the greater world. We are, bluntly put, dated.

by **Seliyan progressive Islands** » Tue Jul 14, 2015 9:10 am

Electricity supply: 230 V, 50 Hz
Electric plug socket type: Type F
Analouge television: None, previously PAL
Digital television: DVB
Document format: PDF

by **Fatatatutti** » Tue Jul 14, 2015 10:24 am

Standards? In Fatatatutti? Who would establish them, much less enforce them?

No, in Fatatatutti it's strictly buyer beware.

by **Hyper-America** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 10:52 am

Electricity supply: 120 V 50 Hz
Electric plug socket type: Type A and Type B
Analouge television: None, we were established long after the disuse of analog television
Digital television: ATSC
Document format: .DocX

by **Nep Tune** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 12:19 pm

The great nation of Nep Tune relies on 100% solar energy in regards to powering our nation. We use incredibly complex and advanced systems that are interconnected throughout the entire planet. Your means of technical standards are outdated.

by **Vostag** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 12:42 pm

Electricity supply: AC and DC. DC is used in lower voltages for things such as appliances, automotive, almost all things that use batteries, and etc.
Voltages are: 120 V
Frequencies: 60 Hz
Electric plug socket type: Types A and B
Analogue television: NTSC
Digital television: ATSC
Document format: Office Open XML, OpenDocument, RTF, and PDF

by **Assum** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 7:03 pm

Electricity supply
AC
220 V
50 Hz

Electric plug socket type
Type A/B

Analogue television
NTSC

Digital television
ATSC

Document format
Civilian: .doc
Government and Military Non-Secure: .doc or .rtf
Government and Military Secure: .vmb (Vethu Media Batalri or Private Media Locked, Because it requires a password to have the file decoded and unscrambled)

by **Ismaria** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 7:21 pm

Electricity supply
AC
115-220V
50Hz

Electric plug socket type
Type C

Analogue television
SECAM

Digital television
There are no digital television sets in the Holy Empire.

Document format
PDF

by **Thupul** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 10:51 pm

Electricity supply
AC 195 V 60 Hz
Electric plug socket type
Type B
Analogue television
SECAM

Digital television
ATSC

Document format
.rtf

by **Parhe** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 11:14 pm

Electricity Supply: Residential Voltage 230 V, Frequency 50 Hz. AC.
Electric Plug Socket Type: Plug Type F.
Analogue Television: NTSC [National Television System Committee], same as what South Korea used.
Digital Television: DMB [Digital Multimedia Broadcasting] & ATSC [Advanced Television Systems Committee]
Document Format: TeX

by **Awesome Break-Away of 250land** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 12:49 am

Electricity supply
AC 230V 50Hz
Electric plug socket type
Schuko / Europlug
Analogue television
Analogue television has been phased out, with PAL being the old standard
Digital television
None - the internet is a popular format for broadcasting
Document format
OpenDocument

by **YellowApple** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 1:06 am

YellowApplan power supply standards come in two forms: DC and AC. DC - in the form of a 4-pin Molex-style connection similar to that of pre-SATA hard drive power cables (12V, ground, ground, 5V) is the most common for small devices/appliances, lighting, and other low-power situations. AC power is provided in the form of an enlarged Molex-style connector with 8 pins (positive, ground, data power, data RX, data TX, data ground, ground, negative) for larger appliances (including breakers for the aforementioned DC system); an appliance can request a voltage anywhere between 128V and 512V at a frequency between 32Hz and 128Hz (most common is 256V/64Hz) using the built-in data line to communicate with the electrical subsystem powering the outlet (this also serves as an additional safety precaution, as such outlets will not supply power on the AC terminals unless instructed to do so via the data connection, preventing risk of electrocution should a foreign object be inserted into any of the connectors).

Some older portions of Manzanopolis Prime have vestiges of an American past, including the use of NEMA plugs and 120V/60Hz AC current, but these are continuing to disappear as they are replaced with more modern connectors. Many locations in Manzanopolis Prime and Trololopolis provide an older style of AC Molex-like plug with only four prongs (positive, ground, ground, negative) at 120V/60Hz; this plug was part of the transition from North American plugs to the current system, and adapters between this and the current 8-pin plug (usually with a built-in transformer to drop the minimum 128V of the current standard to somewhere closer to 120V) are still sold in order for YellowApplans to use foreign appliances.

YellowApplan television broadcasts are entirely digital and network-driven, using standard Internet protocols (either TCP/IP or UDP) for broadcast. Some old broadcasters still co-broadcast with NTSC-M and ATSC broadcasting equipment, and a few facilities still have televisions that operate on such broadcast formats, but these haven't been in mainstream use within YellowApplan jurisdiction since YellowApple, Inc.'s pre-independence days.

Document formats vary, but the most common are PDF (for non-editable documents) and TeX (for editable documents). Markdown and similar simplified document authoring languages are also common, as are SGML derivatives. ODF is modestly popular in cases where interoperability with non-YellowApplan entities is desired. Use of DOC or DOCX (along with other proprietary formats) is virtually unheard of.

by **Gandoor** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 1:30 pm

Electricity supply: 120 V, 60 Hz
Plug socket type: Type A and Type B
Analogue television: None, previously NTSC
Digital television: ISDB
Document format: OpenDocument

by **Ventalia** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 2:09 pm

Electricity supply
220V AC, 50 hz
110V AC, 50 hz (bathrooms)

Electric plug socket type
Type C (deprecated)
Type E

Analogue television
None, formerly SECAM

Digital television
DVB

Document format
Various. Typically PDF for government use.

by **Nueva Uruguay** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 2:44 pm

Electricity supply
230 V ~ 50 Hz

Electric plug socket type
C, F

Analogue television
PAL

Digital television
DMDT (Difusión de Multimedia Digital Terrestre)

Document format
.dom (Domingo Sánchez is the name of our leader)

by **Chrokshsam** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 5:05 pm

Electricity supply
AC 230 V 50 H

Electric plug socket type
Type C

Analogue television
Originally SECAM, but since 1991 there was a shift towards PAL; however, all broadcasting will be turned over to digital by 2026.

Digital television
ATSC

Document format
We don't have a technical standard for this though professionals and educators prefer .doc and .pdf

by **Isla Gazebo** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 6:31 pm

Electricity supply
230V AC @ 50Hz

Electric plug socket type
C, F, I

Analogue television
PAL

Digital television
DVB, DTMB

Document format
.odt, .pdf

by **Novus Niciae** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 7:19 pm

Electricity : 240v @ 50Hz (Domestic), 500v @ 50Amp (industrial)
Plug type: Induction for low voltage applications (most portable devices) , Type I (For larger immobile domestic appliances) , Pin & Sleeve (Industrial)
Analogue television: Obsolete (Formerly Phase Alternating patten Line)
Digital Television (2d video + audio data) : NSDIC (Nician Standard Data Interchange Codec)
Document type: Virtual object Scripting Code (displayed as text document on a piece of paper)

by **Numoland** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 8:31 pm

Electricity supply: 220 V @ 50 Hz

Electric plug socket type: C and F

Analogue television: PAL

Digital television: DVB

Document format: .pdf

by **Nortainland** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 11:32 pm

Electricity: 240V and 50Hz
Plug: Type D for mains. Bathrooms have 'shaver sockets' of the E design.
Analogue television: PAL
Digital television: None
Document type: Computers are not generally used.

by **Natishna** » Sat Jul 18, 2015 6:37 am

Electricity supply: 220 V, 50 Hz
Plug socket type: Type E
Analogue television: PAL (being phased out)
Digital television: DVB
Document format: .docx