The Mercantile Company of Bay Traders is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Board of Governors with an even hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, pith helmet sales, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 3.458 billion Bay Traders are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Primóra. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Bay-Traderian economy, worth 468 trillion swaptions a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Gambling. Average income is an impressive 135,526 swaptions, with the richest citizens earning 6.4 times as much as the poorest.

Children need to wear helmets and safety harnesses before mounting a carousel horse, potatoes are known for their lead aftertaste, kilts and cassocks are viewed with suspicion, and streaming video is considered to be a myth by most citizens. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. Bay Traders's national animal is the crab, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Bay Traders is ranked 32,566^th in the world and 1^st in IxChange for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 26,574.23 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.