Governor: 
The Crown Colony of East Plate
WA Delegate: None.
Founder: 
The Crown Colony of East Plate
Last WA Update:
Embassies: The Embassy, Fredonia, The Northern Commonwealth, Guinea Kiribati, The River Plate States, One Collective Brain Cell, and Allied Nations Treaty Organization.
Tags: Colony, F7er, Minuscule, Password, and Past Tech.
The River Plate Basin is home to a single nation.
Today's World Census Report
The Largest Populations in The River Plate Basin
The following nations have the greatest number of citizens.
As a region, The River Plate Basin is ranked 13,797th in the world for Largest Populations.
 | Nation | WA Category | Motto | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | The Crown Colony of East Plate | Civil Rights Lovefest | “As Illustrious as Brave” |
Regional Happenings
- : Western plate ceased to exist.
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The Perpetual Revolution of Hulldom of the region Blue Ridge withdrew an invitation to construct embassies.
- : Embassy cancelled between Majestia and The River Plate Basin.
- : The Perpetual Revolution of Hulldom of the region Blue Ridge proposed constructing embassies.
- : Davids gorge of the region Majestia ordered the closure of its embassy in The River Plate Basin.
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The Greatest Doge Embassy Empire of Peoples of Waskar of the region True Waskaria proposed constructing embassies.
- : The Greatest Doge Embassy Empire of Peoples of Waskar of the region True Waskaria proposed constructing embassies.
- : The Crown Colony of East Plate granted posting privileges on the The River Plate Basin Regional Message Board to Officers in embassy regions.
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The Free-Market Confederacy of Siluvia of the region Mitteleuropa proposed constructing embassies.
- : Embassy cancelled between EmbassyRegi0nia and The River Plate Basin.
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East Plate, the elements have been uploaded to the folder. Enjoy!!!!!!
To everyone who may be interested;
In partnership with other nations that had previously developed a text, I developed a new and better drafted one to repeal this infamous and facetious WA resolution.
I ask all ANTO allies to approve the resolution, we need 65 approvals for it to be voted on.
[Insert here all the usual praise I give to your work]. Now seriously, like always, the designs for the NBWT look really good. I'll (hopefully) get around to including them and their descriptions in the factbook later this week or during the weekend (or maybe not... as you probably noticed, I am not very active, or at least, as active as I used to be in this site, mainly because I've been quite busy recently, and because the end of the year is always chaotic, so I can't guarantee anything :p)
I think I have also fixed all the mistakes you have spotted in Midfield's description and revised the blazoning of the arms, so I hope it is now good enough to get Auchmuty's seal of approval.
As for you looking for Eastplatine fauna online and completely forgetting that I have a factbook about fauna... don't worry, I sometimes forget I have already described a lot of stuff too :p
I just realised something else about the blazon: if there’s already a cross on the shield, there is no need to say “Quarterly” because the cross already divides it into obvious quarters. So just remove the “Quarterly” from the blazon, that’s all.
Oh, and I forgot to mention the Falklands. East Plate
As you know, the flag with the badge was made in 1876, which, although lets it barely fit into the lore of East Plate, doesn't really make sense when you realise that Auchmuty designed all the subdivisional flags in 1871-73. Unless the Falklands are so worthless that the Printery decided it wasn't worth the effort lol. But I don't think that would be the case, and I feel that having an alternate coat of arms for the Falkland Islands could highlight the butterfly effect that happened when the timelines diverged. And it would be a fun little project for me. So I will make an alternate design, and then I can finally move on to figuring out what Campbell and Parlow and Saint-Pierre and Cross and all those folks are up to.
Insulamia Happy [belated] new year to you too! I can't believe you started making these coat of arms almost half a year ago (and the whole Ministry of Timeless Affairs more than a year ago...)
As always, you did a fantastic job with the coat of arms... I feel like I always say this, but I mean... it IS the truth, what else am I supposed to say? Perhaps I'll tell you that the one you'll make for the Falklands (because I am not going to stop you from making it if that is what you want to do) looks terrible just to change things a little (not really). Now I need to stop being lazy and get to work with the national symbols factbook hehe.
Don't worry about not noticing that Arlesey is not a part of IRL Uruguay until now. I was not expecting you to know the territorial limits of Uruguay, nor was I expecting anyone to know why East Plate has that random addition to its territory... in fact, I don't even have a very elaborate justification as to why it exists, and I should try to come up with some decent explanation lol (especially its very ambiguous borders which are based on a bunch of poorly drawn maps and me just making sh*t up).
I love how the design for the Falklands looks like... and I also really like the detail of including Desire there, because, well, I just like references to ships. I know you didn't make anything particularly creative by including it in the design, considering ships are all over the place in the Falkland's (real) symbols, but for some reason I had always thought they were some random ships symbolising the Falkland's relation to the sea or some other vague sea-related meaning and never bothered to check, so actually learning that one of those ships is a representation of a real ship was interesting, and unexpected. The flag designs also look incredible, and way better than anything I could have done trying to morph a flag into the shape of those elements.
As for the Governor's badge... it looks very very similar to the Windward Islands' because it IS the Windward Islands' badge morphed with some other symbols which I stole from some other badge that I do not even remember anymore. I thought that the British Windward Islands were obscure enough for it to be safe to steal their symbols without anyone noticing, but I guess I was wrong. Anyways, feel free to redesign it to whatever you want... my only condition is for the flag to still be a Union Jack defaced with the badge surrounded by laurel branches (or branches from any other Eastplatine-esque plant you may want, although I would not recommend you doing that, considering there are probably zero of those for you to steal borrow from already made badges/coat of arms/etc), and not a blue field defaced with the badge like the Governor-Generals' current flags, as that design seems to be more recent... but I think you already noticed that, so I have no idea why I am telling you this :p
Finally, for the "Instructions to build the Eastplatine flag as published by the Government Printery," I pretty much just tried to copy Wikipedia's style for "flag construction sheets," like these two, for example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom_%283-5%29_%28construction_sheet%29.svg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Australia_(construction_sheet).svg
I am not even sure if what I made is correct, as I just very arbitrarily assigned a "1" to the length of the shorter side of the flag (I have no idea if there is some kind of standard to be followed when assigning those numbers) and then manually assigned the rest of the lengths for the rest of the things based on it (and I did not bother to check if those numbers are 100% correct either, by the way)... It probably helps that the Eastplatine flag is relatively simple, and the only "complex" thing is the Union Jack... which is still quite simple overall.
Just writing to let you know that I have (finally) updated the factbook about Eastplatine symbols to include the North Blackwater Territory, but most importantly, to let you know I have made a very tiny modification to your design to include a little reference to Amethysts, mostly because I just like them and they so happen to be produced in the North Blackwater Territory. I hope I have not ruined your design or broken some major heraldic rule by doing so... but if I did, let me know :p
And in case you are wondering, that "Empress of East Plate" is a reference to the "Empress of Uruguay," which apparently is the largest Amethyst geode in the world... but it was discovered in 2007 instead of 1869, and instead of being gifted to Queen Victoria, it was sold to some Australians and is being displayed in some random town in Queensland. I have no clue how the Eastplatines found it using Victorian-era technology, or why they are so proud of it when it is not even that valuable, but whatever... maybe finding it more than a hundred years earlier made it interesting?
P.S.: I think Grand Brittany should be able to post/like things here now.
I was a bit busy over the last few days so sorry for the late reply.
The description is great and I can't find much to fault. I like how you've explained Auchmuty's - and thus my own - Anglocentric biases. I learned something new about the etymology of the Rio Negro. And for some reason I had already known about the Empress of Uruguay and its home in Atherton, Queensland. I have no recollection of how/why I had stumbled across that amethyst; I'm not very interested in mineralogy and I have never been to Atherton...
Now though I couldn't find much to fault, I did find some teeny tiny things. So I guess we return to the CORNER OF PEDANTRY!!!
Firstly, I think the first word of the second body paragraph should really be "Whilst" instead of "While", since it is being used to draw a comparison and not express the fact that the events are happening at the same time.
Secondly, the amethyst crown is quite unique and I haven't seen any similar examples in heraldry. That's fine, though, because unique things come up in heraldry all the time. However, I feel that a more 'heraldic' way to blazon it would be "an Imperial Crown encrusted with amethyst jewels all Proper."
P.S. *Britanny :p
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