The people of the Bessent Archepelago are a fiercely independent sort, proudly enjoying their isolation. They are famous for their filthy mariner banter, often stringing together as many as a hundred unsavory adjectives and adverbs to modify a single noun or verb. As is their way, they customarily must include an obscene reference in every sentence.

The daily newspaper, The Daily Invective, is literally a lexicon of filth and vile words you never knew existed. Most of the movie ratings there begin with NC-17.