The People's Republic of Selva Roja is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its ban on automobiles, sprawling nuclear power plants, and national health service. The compassionate population of 1.274 billion Selva Rojans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Healthcare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lucario. The average income tax rate is 72.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Selva Rojan economy, worth 143 trillion Marxes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient black market in Information Technology, Tourism, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 112,255 Marxes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Graffiti graces every city's streets, diplomats miss flights while wandering Lucario Airport's endless art maze, fraternities are notorious for drunken hooliganism, and Leader has just been declared ruler of Selva Roja in an international press conference. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Selva Roja's national animal is the Hippo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Selva Roja is ranked 30,073^rd in the world and 2^nd in The Diamond Trifecta for Smartest Citizens, with 56.37 quips per hour.