The Crown Colony of East Plate is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Governor Lucas Higgins with a fair hand, and remarkable for its irreverence towards religion and absence of drug laws. The hard-working, democratic population of 2.901 billion Eastplatines hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The tiny, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Montevideo City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.5%.

The very strong Eastplatine economy, worth 204 trillion Eastplatine Pounds a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Furniture Restoration, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 70,421 Eastplatine Pounds, with the richest citizens earning 5.9 times as much as the poorest.

Governor Lucas Higgins is too busy listening to praise to get any work done, books are so highly regarded in East Plate that libraries are often revered as holy shrines, relations with Dàguó have warmed from frosty to chilly, and the new cheese tax is colloquially known as "wheel welfare". Crime is moderate, probably because of the absence of a police force. East Plate's national animal is the Southern Lapwing, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities, and its national religion is Anglicanism.

East Plate is ranked 40,881^st in the world and 1,835^th in The North Pacific for Smartest Citizens, with 41.5 quips per hour.