The Osiris of Selals is a titanic, socially progressive nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 12.448 billion Selalsians enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 14.2%.

The very strong Selalsian economy, worth 572 trillion scarabs a year, is quite specialized and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery, Basket Weaving, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 46,000 scarabs, with the richest citizens earning 9.9 times as much as the poorest.

Surveillance cameras are banned, the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry, Harry Potter books are banned, and TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas. Crime is a problem. Selals's national animal is the scarab, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Selals is ranked 19,691^st in the world and 1^st in Esterons for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 5,136.85 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.