The Poor Team of The Tampa Bay Rays is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Stuart Sternberg with an even hand, and remarkable for its public floggings, ubiquitous missile silos, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, devout population of 2.187 billion Tampa Bay Raysians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tropicana Field. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 69.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Tampa Bay Raysian economy, worth 249 trillion rubles a year, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 113,975 rubles, with the richest citizens earning 8.0 times as much as the poorest.

An aboriginal talking stick is used for leaders' debates at election time, industry tycoons rarely hide their misdeeds due to the government's habit of bailing them out, one can walk from one side of Tropicana Field to the other without setting foot on Tampa Bay Raysian soil, and citizens wishing to leave the country must surrender half their wealth to the government. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Tampa Bay Rays's national animal is the Ray, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Baseball.

The Tampa Bay Rays is ranked 116,253^rd in the world and 5,902^nd in The North Pacific for Most Pro-Market, scoring 32.22 on the Rand Index.