The Pizza Loving Lucky Colony of Cursed beetles is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Ringa Beetles with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, soft-spoken computers, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 7.576 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 Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yggdrasil. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Cursian economy, worth a remarkable 2,012 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 265,577 Golden Yggdrasil Leaves, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Party has more splits than a yo-yo dieter's trousers, murderers facing life in prison listen to long sermons on positive thinking, trains and passengers alike are often late, and passive-aggressive congratulations cards inform mums-to-be that their pregnancy is their greatest achievement in life. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cursed beetles's national animal is the Leprechaun, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Athyism.

Cursed beetles is ranked 288,376^th in the world and 97^th in World of Beetles for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -19.18 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.