The Age of Plastic is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, enslaved workforce, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 22.98 billion Plasticians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Industry, Law & Order, and Education are also considered important, while Environment and Social Policy are ignored. The average income tax rate is 29.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Plastician economy, worth a remarkable 4,766 trillion Credit Cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Soda Sales. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 207,413 Credit Cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

Bureaucrats close new businesses for not complying with the Penguin Packaging Index, droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, grocery stores can be audibly identified by the giggling emerging from them, and roaming gangsters have been replaced by roaming drunkards. 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 45,300^th in the world and 2,766^th in Osiris for Lowest Crime Rates, with 75.66 law-abiding acts per hour.