Travel in Sel Appa

This article is about the current 2024 edition. For the 2007 edition, see Travel in Sel Appa/2007 edition.

Sel Appa is a large country of over 1.3 billion inhabitants. It is located on the continent of Sel Appa, along with MassPwnage, Comunisticturkeys, and De Jewish Mafia. It is a quite diverse nation molding all walks of life together. With a history going back more than four millennia, Sel Appa today is quite modernised and enjoys a prosperous economy. Being a powerful and wealthy nation, it has a mixture of densely-populated urban areas with wide areas of low population and incredible natural beauty.

Respect

Sel Appa is somewhat an outlier in being economically left, but socially conservative yet secular. One might think they were in a theocracy going by the attitudes of Sel Appans who frown upon drug and alcohol use, prostitution, abortion, and homosexuality. All are illegal, officially. Alcohol and drugs are permitted for private religious purposes, but public use is illegal and despised. It is generally advised to homosexual travelers to be discreet. Public displays of affection are broadly taboo, but behind closed doors, citizens arent nosy.

However, in recent years as stable Liberal Party leadership opened Sel Appa up, values have loosened. National law enforcement ceased to regulate drugs and alcohol beyond importation, and deprioritised anti-homosexuality laws. Provincial governments vary in enforcement. Historically, arrest and deportation were possible. In the 2020s, police generally tell violators to knock it off. In rural and working class areas, vigilantes are known to enforce their views, albeit more bluster than action. In more modern, urban areas, there is a more quiet tolerance.

Sel Appans are an open and welcoming people who love all cultures, no surprise given the diversity within. Racism is rare, but not illegal. Hate speech is not restricted, however racist comments might get dirty looks at a minimum. Christianity and Islam are both illegal, but only in public practice; private worship is private. Environmentalism has a deep current in Sel Appa, across the populace, almost a national religion. Desecrating nature is illegal and harshly punished.

Politics can be sensitive with the recent Russian secession being very divisive, and other subnational movements with various levels of influence. Anvorbuod separatism has tempered out, but residents there consider themselves different. The monarchy, recently abolished, still has supporters, especially on Fizroe Island and around the Bay. Republican sentiments are generally unwelcome.