The most profitable route in the game goes into Bretonia. I won't say where (unless you PM me to ask), but it does exist. And my Zoner passes through Bretonia quite regularly on profitable trade routes...it's just that many people don't know about them.
Also, has nobody paid attention to RP threads? Check the QCO message dump. Or read "In the Queen's Service", linked to in my sig. We just finished a little RP event with the Benitez. Corsairs do come to Bretonia, though not terribly often. That's why my QCO was totally inactive for a week; he was a POW.
And I can tell you already that the race will have at least one participant: Constable Heather Barclay in her Arrow. And she'll be going to Dublin to practice sometimes...c'mon, Mollies. See if you can catch her. She's got no armor upgrades and LF class 6 shields right now, so she's not hard to destroy....if you can hit her.:P