The Pizza Loving Lucky Colony of Dragon beetles is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Santa Claus with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, lack of airports, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.787 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 99.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Dragonian economy, worth 752 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 198,733 Golden Candy Canes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Immigrants who carry knives on them are presumed to be chefs, the Dragon beetles Enquirer offers weekly cash prizes for 'most blasphemous song, story, or cartoon', organ donation is compulsory, and films are funded in accordance with the volume of tears shed when reading the screenplay. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dragon beetles's national animal is the Leprechaun, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Athyism.

Dragon beetles is ranked 259,208^th in the world and 68^th in World of Beetles for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry, scoring -17.89 on the Tasmanian Pulp Environmental Export Index.