The Coastal Republic of Superior Bay is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Fesh Pince with an iron fist, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, otherworldly petting zoo, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, cheerful, devout population of 6.212 billion Superior Bayians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Two Harbors. The average income tax rate is 81.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Superior Bayian economy, worth a remarkable 2,058 trillion Sea Shells a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 331,359 Sea Shells, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 times as much as the poorest.

Few that venture into government archives are ever seen again, airship use has soared while property values beneath their routes have plummeted, plain-clothes police officers follow Dàguó tourists everywhere they go, and economists have been named Invertebrates of the Year. Crime is totally unknown. Superior Bay's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christianity.

Superior Bay is ranked 1,406^th in the world and 41^st in Osiris for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 34,971.3 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.