# Feature status

*[Version française](etat-fonctionnalites.md)*

**Status as of 21 October 2026, firmware 0.7 in service.** This is the single reference for whether a feature announced on either website exists. Where pages disagree, this table prevails over them, and the code prevails over this table. It is updated with every release.

**States:**
- **In service**: the feature runs in the box or on the websites.
- **Coded, closed**: the code is in the firmware in service, but the feature only opens at an age the country has not reached yet, or awaits a setting.
- **Planned**: nothing is coded yet, or the code is not installed. Order and content may change.

The firmware is not public yet (it will be released with the studies). Until then, the "Where to check" column points to public data and pages.

## The box and the data

| Feature | State | Since | Where to check |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Country of 120 citizens on 6 regions and a gateway (ESP-NOW radio) | In service | 0.3, 8 Oct 2026 | [architecture.en.md](architecture.en.md) |
| One hour in the country = one real hour, on French time | In service | 0.3 | `heures[]` in every raw file |
| Real market prices: European Central Bank rates, read at 6 pm on business days | In service | 0.3 | `bourse` in every issue |
| What comes in from outside: today, only market prices. Counted votes and replies to the signal: see the ages below | In service (market) | 0.3 | "About" page |
| Simulated weather: storms, epidemics, droughts, crises, plenty, drawn at random by the gateway | In service | 0.3 | rules page; no real weather data |
| Elections every 3 days, ministers, censorship, postponement, revolt, palace coup, vacancy | In service | 0.3 | newspaper, `data/histoire.json` |
| Citizens' faith (believer, agnostic, atheist) | In service | 0.3 | newspaper |
| Shared language: one idea per hour, speaker drawn at random | In service | 0.3 | `data/langue.json` |
| Effect of language on politics: two regions that understand each other poorly trust each other less (voters favour a candidate from a region that "speaks like them", and a region that understands the capital poorly gets slightly angrier). This is a fixed rule of the gateway and regions. The words themselves are not inputs to the brains, and their decisions do not depend on them directly | In service | 0.3 | `comprehension` in `data/langue.json` and the raw file; [grille-criteres-v2.en.md](grille-criteres-v2.en.md) (criterion 09) |
| Reward-based learning of the brains (weights strengthened or weakened according to satisfaction) | In service as a mechanism; its effect on behaviour is not demonstrated yet (weight export in 0.8, then studies) | 0.3 | [grille-criteres-v2.en.md](grille-criteres-v2.en.md) |
| Daily raw file with SHA-256 manifest | In service | 0.6, 15 Oct 2026 | [dictionnaire-donnees.en.md](dictionnaire-donnees.en.md) |
| Random seeds published (format 2) | In service | 0.7, 18 Oct 2026 | `graines` block of the raw file |
| Power consumption read every hour (local smart plug) | In service | 0.7 | `heures[].prise` |
| Automatic Wi-Fi restart after an outage | In service | 0.7 | `systeme.notes` (type `wifi`) |
| Delayed publication when the Internet is down | In service | 0.3 | [registre-incidents.en.md](registre-incidents.en.md) |
| Copy of the country outside the box every evening | In service | 0.3 | `data/sauvegarde.json` (newspaper site) |
| Hidden RESET button (Great Reset) | In service | 0.3 | never used so far |
| Abstention, blank votes, polls | Planned | 0.8 | [historique-versions.en.md](historique-versions.en.md) |
| Export of brain weights, save format 4 | Planned | 0.8 | [historique-versions.en.md](historique-versions.en.md) |
| Work, money, school, generations, etc. (updates 2 to 7) | Planned | — | rules page, "What is planned" |

## The ages of the civilisation

| Age | What opens | State | Where to check |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Founding | The paper | In service since 9 Oct 2026 | newspaper |
| Speech | The "Language" page | In service since 18 Oct 2026 | `ages` in `data/latest.json` |
| Memory | The "History" page, records | Coded, closed | same field: progress towards the age |
| Civil Registry | Adopting a citizen | Coded, closed | same |
| Diplomacy | The embassy, its questions and monthly letter | Coded, closed | same |
| Diplomacy | Embassy denials in the paper (typos of past issues) | Coded (0.5), closed | same |
| Diplomacy | Public votes on the embassy's questions (plain counters) | Coded, closed, and waiting for the voting service (not chosen yet) | legal notice page |
| Curiosity | The Research Centre's signal and listening for replies (written in the country's language only) | Coded, closed | same |

## The newspaper

| Feature | State | Since | Where to check |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bilingual paper written by the gateway, every evening at 8 pm | In service | 0.3 | `data/editions/N.json` |
| Following characters ("What became of…?", journey of the week) | In service | 0.5 and 0.6 | issues |
| Sections, signing citizen journalists, daily note, Sunday issue | In service | 0.6 | `signature` in issues |
| Censored press (articles blacked out, never the figures) | In service | 0.6 | issues under censorship |
| Biography of every citizen, fame | Planned | — | rules page |

## The websites

| Feature | State | Since | Where to check |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| microcontroland.org domain (newspaper on www, data on donnees) | In service | 21 Oct 2026 | — |
| Newspaper readable without JavaScript (`journal.txt`, `/texte/`) | In service | 21 Oct 2026 | [journal.txt](https://www.microcontroland.org/journal.txt) |
| History and language without JavaScript, robots.txt, sitemap | In service | 21 Oct 2026 | [/texte/](https://www.microcontroland.org/texte/) |
| "Discover the country in 5 minutes" page (country's state updated every evening) | In service | 21 Oct 2026 | [decouvrir.html](https://www.microcontroland.org/decouvrir.html) |
| Static index of the data site | In service | 21 Oct 2026 | [plan.html](https://donnees.microcontroland.org/plan.html) |
| Anonymous log of self-declared robots (day, robot, page, status; no IP, no cookie) | In service | 21 Oct 2026 | monthly export planned in `agents-ia/` |
| Table of the 18 artificial-life criteria (grid v2) | In service, states "pending" | 19 Oct 2026 | [grille-criteres-v2.en.md](grille-criteres-v2.en.md) |
| Computation of the criteria index | Planned: thresholds dated before the first computation, display at the Age of Curiosity | — | same |
| Release of the firmware source code | Planned, with the studies | — | — |