The State of Selwyn Lake is a gargantuan, efficient nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape and strictly enforced bedtime. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 30.712 billion Selwyn Lakeans enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 11.6%.

The thriving Selwyn Lakean economy, worth 932 trillion betales a year, is quite specialized and led by the Pizza Delivery industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Retail. Average income is 30,367 betales, with the richest citizens earning 7.1 times as much as the poorest.

Children have taken to using semaphore in light of the recent mobile phone ban, teenagers are sent to jail for being out too late, foreigners are treated with great suspicion, and Selwyn Lake has designated Capital Heights as its capital city. Crime is moderate. Selwyn Lake's national animal is the deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Selwyn Lake is ranked 54,296^th in the world and 1^st in Maldives for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 3,657.66 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.