The Lancaster Trading Company is an organisation that was formed in 2004 by an assortment of Lancastrian merchants, businessmen, and haulers whose business had come under threat from the Clevish Singleton Clan and had therefore opted to pool their resources in order to compete. Since then, they have been playing catch-up with their archrivals, aided by government backing and Lancaster's relatively good transport infrastructure, but hampered by their nation's small size and the fact that, unlike the Singleton Cla,n they lack familial connections in other countries. Nonetheless, they have made significant progress in establishing trade links with the wider world and show every sign of continuing to do so.