The Unified Planet of Selios is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Worldmind Selios with a fair hand, and notable for its compulsory military service, national health service, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 2.13 billion Selions are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The relatively small, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Illumina. The average income tax rate is 12.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Selion economy, worth 367 trillion Manas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 172,332 Manas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Any secret that gets off someone's chest is promptly replaced, schoolchildren on field trips are asked what torture means to them, the government is a proud sponsor of the National Gaming Association, and psychiatrists bizarrely accompany Worldmind Selios to meetings with foreign heads of state. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Selios's national animal is the Pseudodragon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Orism.

Selios is ranked 257,190^th in the world and 50^th in The Galactics Union for Largest Black Market, with 115 billion Standard Monetary Units.