The Poor Team of The Tampa Bay Rays is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Stuart Sternberg with an even hand, and renowned for its compulsory military service, public floggings, and prohibition of alcohol. The hard-nosed, devout population of 1.606 billion Tampa Bay Raysians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Administration, and Education are also considered important. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tropicana Field. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 64.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Tampa Bay Raysian economy, worth 179 trillion rubles a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 111,956 rubles, with the richest citizens earning 7.4 times as much as the poorest.

Armed war-criminals gain asylum if deemed 'fabulous' enough, animal liberationists receive government funding to break into animal research labs, medical experts advise that those claiming to be medical experts are probably fraudsters, and reports of arson have doubled since the introduction of a privatised fire protection service. 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 teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Baseball.

The Tampa Bay Rays is ranked 22,137^th in the world and 1,168^th in The North Pacific for Most Developed, scoring 73.37 on the Human Development Index.