The Pizza Loving Lucky Colony of Christmas beetles is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Santa Claus with a fair hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, ban on automobiles, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.805 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 government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yggdrasil. The average income tax rate is 99.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Christmassian economy, worth 759 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 major contributions from Book Publishing, Pizza Delivery, and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 199,623 Golden Candy Canes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is spending billions of Golden Candy Canes on helping citizens find spiritual enlightenment, the nation is known abroad mostly for its Parliamentary antics, students are known to arrive at school in their pyjamas, and citizens know never to accept cookies from strangers. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable 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 258,911^th in the world and 61^st in World of Beetles for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry, scoring -17.55 on the Tasmanian Pulp Environmental Export Index.