The Republic of Sel Appa is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Kristina Leno with an even hand, and notable for its lack of airports, keen interest in outer space, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate, hard-working, humorless population of 27.424 billion Sel Appans have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The tiny government is dominated by the Department of Environment, with Education also on the agenda, while Industry and Defense aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nemnenait. The average income tax rate is 4.7%.

The large but stagnant Sel Appan economy, worth 110 trillion pounds a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is mostly comprised of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 4,018 pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

The new national campaign exhorts men to "Show Some Class - Don't Sit On Your Ass", a five-year-old and a convicted terrorist can sit alongside one another in jury service, any citizen who cries is immediately assigned a psychiatrist, and the new one pound coin also makes a handy throwing-star. Crime is a major problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Sel Appa's national animal is the turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is nothing.

Sel Appa is ranked 119,536^th in the world and 1^st in Sel Appa for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 84.7 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.