Vehicle registration plates of New Eiffel

An example of a proposed New Eiffelic registration plate

In the erstwhile Principality of New Eiffel, vehicle registration plates—commonly known colloquially as number plates (Arabtemporarian: katrein; New Eiffelian: numbroб)—for motor vehicles and bicycles had been legally required since 23 April 2019, but this law was never enforced, and no vehicle ever received a number plate. New Eiffel self-assigned itself the international vehicle registration code NWE, but, like the number plates, this code was also never used.

Each registration plate officially consisted of seven numbers, in the pattern order of [two digit city]-[two digit vehicle number]-[three digit year]—separated by hyphens. The first two digits indicated the city the vehicle or bicycle was registered in; the second two digits indicated the vehicle number—which would be assigned during registration—and the last three digits indicated the year that the vehicle was manufactured. An example of a full registration plate number would thus be 02-10-018 for a vehicle registered in Plitvice in 2018 with the assigned vehicle code 10.

History

Proposed car sticker possessing the international vehicle registration code NWE; never implemented

Vehicle registration plates for bicycles were first proposed on 12 July 2018 by Zabëlle Skye, then-King of the Kingdom of New Finland—the predecessor state to New Eiffel. In order to be allow to cycle on New Finlandic roads, each bicycle was to be required to possess a bicycle ID number which would be registered with the government and simply range from 1 to 99. As New Finland had about 13 bicycles at the time, the highest possible ID would be 13 if all bicycles were registered. Contemporary records are unsure about whether the IDs would require payment, but the Royal Archives—the former national archives of New Eiffel which now exist to archive and promote the erstwhile micronation's history—presumes that they did.

One citizen, Janus Smith, objected to this law, and that same day burned all of his Łight Net banknotes in protest against the proposed system. He was fined £20 by the supreme court, which he did not pay. His fine was later dismissed on the grounds that burning currency was not explicitly illegal within New Finland.

On 23 April 2019, now in the principality, Skye, as the minister of transportation, passed a law requiring all bicycles and motor vehicles to register and display a number plate. Although registration was free, the law was never enforced, and no vehicle ever received a number plate. The government had also planned to maintain a public vehicle registration plates index of all registered vehicles in New Eiffel, but this was never needed. On 27 February 2020, New Eiffel self-assigned the international vehicle registration code NWE, but, like the number plates, this code was never used. New Eiffel dissolved on 1 November.

Registration plate numbers

Though never used, each registration plate officially consisted of seven numbers, in the pattern order of [two digit city]-[two digit vehicle number]-[three digit year]—separated by hyphens. The first two digits indicated the city the vehicle or bicycle was registered in; the second two digits indicated the vehicle number—which would be assigned during registration—and the last three digits indicated the year that the vehicle was manufactured. For instance, if the vehicle was manufactured in 2019, it would be assigned the year digits 019. New Leeds, the largest city, had the city number of 01; Plitvice had 02; and Új Repülő, the capital, had 03. An example of a full registration plate number would thus be 02-10-018, representing a bicycle with the vehicle number 10 that was registered in Plitvice and manufactured in 2018.

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