The Empire of Sellentose is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, irreverence towards religion, and compulsory gun ownership. The compassionate population of 806 million Sellentoseans have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and look forward to their next free and open election, to be held on an as-yet unannounced date.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Grand City. The average income tax rate is 72.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Sellentosean economy, worth 112 trillion guilders a year, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 139,770 guilders, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Schoolchildren on field trips are asked what torture means to them, journalists listen to the money talk, traffic jams are a common sight due to construction work from a massive overhaul of the nation's freeways, and people reciting Shakespeare have become a common sight. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Sellentose's national animal is the cobra, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sellentose is ranked 11,533^rd in the world and 41^st in Concord for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 61.64 on the Kitten Softness Rating.