@BowsacNoodle @EdBoatConnoisseur @Curvin @white_male @gnarley_boot @PonyPanda It could be done but you have to have a tighter control/regulation on who, from your country, is really allowed to trade with other countries as representatives of your own.
Instead of "rootless merchants" with no homeland and quite a shifty character about themselves, merchants who are tied to your country somehow (preferably by blood).