User blog comment:DYBAD/Character Sheet/@comment-24955665-20160205031641/@comment-4867780-20160205134635

The trope is a reference to the omnipresent Selforge Technology (sparks of Lawrence's power/self autonomously performing predefined functions on a subconscious level through Mindshifting programming) that handles every practical aspect of Selforge City, from goods production and services provision to metahuman transcendence and superpower creation, including planar engineering and afterlife administration.

So it's just a tribute to its nation-wide Megacorp aspect. In practice, Selforge City is effectively a socialist utopia, wherein the genuine happiness of every citizen is the one driving force determining all decisions (the Selforge Egalitarian Empathic Democracy).

So both a monopolitistic Megacorp dedicated to free public service, and an autocratic government dedicated to optimal collective fulfillment. Love the way Lawrence turns classics upside down, and creates the best out of the worst ^ ^