The Pizza Loving Lucky Colony of Azure beetles is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Santa Claus with a fair hand, and renowned for its triple-decker prams, keen interest in outer space, and smutty television. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.572 billion Beetles love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yggdrasil. The average income tax rate is 98.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Azurian economy, worth 702 trillion Golden Candy Canes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Pizza Delivery, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 196,717 Golden Candy Canes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Most ambassadors from Azure beetles retire only a few years after being appointed, the government puts forth the claim that harming young girls is wrong, the government has been criticized for giving away Azure beetles's territory to anyone who claims it, and the national guard is mobilized whenever a mother gets separated from her child at the mall. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Azure beetles's national animal is the Leprechaun, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Athyism.

Azure beetles is ranked 1,917^th in the world and 88^th in World of Beetles for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring 55 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.