Terrebonne is an advanced economy which specializes in high tech manufacturing. A nation famed for its maritime industry Terrebonne maintains the most advanced submarine designs in all of the Asia-Pacific Region. Houma pursues a regional policy of security and trade assurances. As such the Terrebonne Ministry of Foreign Affairs remains quite active and engaged in building up economic and cultural relations with both Union bloc states and non-Union Bloc states. Sometimes undermining the more central initiative of the Union States of Greater Oceania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs itself. These policy clashes are usually small with the highly skilled Terrebonne diplomats ultimately getting their way since Lafayette can ill-afford to antagonize the legal actions of its USGO member-states.