The Pizza Loving Lucky Colony of February beetles is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Santa Claus with a fair hand, and notable for its daily referendums, ban on automobiles, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.877 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 99.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Fibruaryian economy, worth 777 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 amazing 200,528 Golden Candy Canes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Future forecasters fearfully discuss grey goo and human obsolescence, passionate nomination battles are often as intense as general elections, not many kids know Shakespeare's Hamlet but most of them have seen unofficial sequel Hamlet III - The Search For Osric, and the government sends submarines to retrieve bodies from shipwrecked submarines. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. February beetles's national animal is the Leprechaun, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Athyism.

February beetles is ranked 252,377^th in the world and 19^th in World of Beetles for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -8.72 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.