The Pizza Loving Lucky Colony of Christmas beetles is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Ringa Beetles with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, ban on automobiles, and soft-spoken computers. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 7.484 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 Administration, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yggdrasil. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Christmassian economy, worth a remarkable 1,988 trillion Golden Yggdrasil Leaves a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Pizza Delivery. Average income is an amazing 265,641 Golden Yggdrasil Leaves, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Violetist community celebrates bombshells being dropped on Christmas beetles, women often give birth before they can even get an abortion procedural form, saying "don't do anything that Ringa Beetles wouldn't do" doesn't exclude a great deal, and the treehouse in Leprechaun Park is the tallest building in Christmas beetles. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Christmas beetles's national animal is the Leprechaun, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Athyism.

Christmas beetles is ranked 921^st in the world and 78^th in World of Beetles for Lowest Crime Rates, with 173.94 law-abiding acts per hour.