Yeah, I think the US, Canada and Germany are the only countries in the world with such substantial connections. On the other end of the spectrum you've got places like Spain and Italy, where the minimum supply was, until very recently, 3.5 kVA! I believe Italy increased that to 5.5 and Spain to 7.2 kVA. Smaller apartments in Italy didn't even bother with a fuse board, they just had the DNO-supplied 15-amp RCBO built into the meter base. In older houses even larger apartments didn't have one - I distinctly remember a 3br place in Torino with that exact setup. Electric oven and water heater too. One night the combination of these two plunged the whole place into darkness. Watching the owner take a picture off the wall in the hallway to get to the meter was quite funny!
