The Lunatic Fringe of Selenoteuthis is a gargantuan, safe nation, notable for its punitive income tax rates, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic population of 44.853 billion Selenoteuthisians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 73.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Selenoteuthisian economy, worth 805 trillion newtons 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, extremely specialized black market in Beef-Based Agriculture and Automobile Manufacturing. 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 17,960 newtons, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Selenoteuthis's national animal is the fig, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Selenoteuthis is ranked 247,712^th in the world and 2^nd in The East Atlantic for Highest Food Quality, scoring 7.75 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.