Vehicle registration plates of Seratof

Vehicle registration plates of Seratof, more formally known as System of Vehicle Identification, is the national system of within Seratof. All vehicles must display the registration plates on the front and back of the vehicle. The current system was formalized into law in 1972 shortly after the rise of the Seratofian People's Party. All registration plates in Seratof are issued by the Regional Transport Office located within each municipality. Every Seratofian registration plate also displays the engine displacement as well as the build of the car. The mandatory inspection sticker has been discontinued since 2006 and is no longer found in newer plates.

Format
There are several formats issued within the SVI. The most common format is issued to private vehicles. Other formats issued within the SVI include government plates, emergency plates, diplomatic corps plates, as well as vintage plates. Although varying, the base format consists of three parts: the flag of Seratof with capital S beneath it, the vehicle displacement and class as well as the specific formats granted to each subsystem.

Private vehicles
Private vehicles follow the format X 0000 YZ where X denotes the place of registration, 0000 is four numbers, Y is the subdistrict code and Z is a letter. Overall, the format could be simplified to two parts: the location identifier (shown by the letters X and Y) as well as the series of the vehicle (denoted by 0000 Z). The codes for the place of registration do not always match with the current boundaries of provinces. The borders of the old provinces were changed while the SVI grants each old province its own code. As a result, it is not uncommon to see regional codes overlap multiple provinces and it is also common to see multiple regional codes existing within the same province. Each municipality has their own subdistrict identifier within the general location identifier. For example, the Einidar municipality located within the Eršja region (denoted by A) has the subdistrict codes of A-G, meaning that a plate with 'X' being A and 'Y' being any letter being A to G is registered within the Einidar municipality.

The SVI for private vehicles is issued in an incremental order. Starting from X 0001 YA and progressing towards X 9999 YA. Whenever the limit for combinations within the number part of the system has been exhausted, the next plate issued will return to 0001 but with the next municipality code. For example, if within the Einidar municipality A 9999 AA has been issued, the next plate issued would be A 0001 BA and not A 0001 AB. Subsequently, if the series has run out of municipality codes for this case, the third letter is then changed. Coming back to the example of Einidar, when plate A 9999 GA has been issued, the next series in the system would then be A 0001 AB. The system continues until the series runs out of combinations. Every code usually has reserve municipality codes in preparation of a runout problem within each regional code. Currently, the municipality codes are distributed based on population, with more populated municipalities harboring more codes. Currently, no such regional code has exhausted all of its municipality subdistrict codes, however various projections have set Azxara to run out of combinations by the year 2030. Future plans for the system have not yet been disclosed to the public yet.

As previously mentioned, the regional codes assigned to vehicles are based on the old provinces which existed before 2007. As such, there are many instances of a single municipality within a province to have a completely different code from the rest of the province, for example, the Kjírstijan municipality in the Ákdjar province possesses the regional code AB while the rest of the province was assigned the code AB. Another result of regional codes still being applied to old provinces is that some provinces are split between two or sometimes even three codes while sometimes a single code can span multiple provinces. The Varga province, for example, contains two codes: E and N while the entire Montana and Turigan provinces fall under a single code: BH.

The assignment of the letters for the codes themselves are rather arbitrary. The capital Azxara was assigned the code 'T' while neighboring provinces were assigned the codes A, P, and K. When looked at a map, the letters seem randomly assigned with no rhyme or reason behind the coding. The letters do not represent the province names nor is it applied and assigned in an orderly manner. While Seratof uses both one and two-letter regional codes, the letters J, Q, U, W, X, Y are not used as regional codes at all. All two-letter prefixes are located outside of Seratof Country. Most of northern Heltia possesses the B prefix before codes, such as BA, BB, BD. Vehicle codes from Venima attach a D before a letter, providing two codes for the entire Venimaland: DA and DB. The islands region only contain one code: EA.