The Age of Plastic is a gargantuan, orderly nation, notable for its enslaved workforce, pith helmet sales, and ban on automobiles. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 28.195 billion Plasticians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 37.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Plastician economy, worth a remarkable 6,134 trillion Credit Cards a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 217,581 Credit Cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

Election ballot papers are so long that unused ones are recycled as toilet roll, chipped paint can see a building condemned, it isn't a secret plot without caviar and foie gras, and not all rivers run to the sea. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Plastic's national animal is the Duck, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Plastic is ranked 8,958^th in the world and 2^nd in The Featured Region Followers for Largest Populations, with 28.2 billion capita.