The Pizza Loving Lucky Colony of Dark beetles is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Santa Claus with a fair hand, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles, compulsory vegetarianism, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.802 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 average income tax rate is 99.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Darkian economy, worth 756 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 Tourism. Average income is an impressive 198,945 Golden Candy Canes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

All statues and paintings of dogs are being destroyed to avoid offending cat-lovers, it is technically inaccurate to call the dead 'worm food', citizens are exhausted from weekly general elections, and the fattest folk in Dark beetles look to be the happiest ones. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dark beetles's national animal is the Leprechaun, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Athyism.

Dark beetles is ranked 259,809^th in the world and 92^nd in World of Beetles for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry, scoring -19.6 on the Tasmanian Pulp Environmental Export Index.