The Pizza Loving Lucky Colony of Festival beetles is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Santa Claus with a fair hand, and renowned for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, soft-spoken computers, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.863 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 Fystivalian economy, worth 786 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 Basket Weaving. Average income is an amazing 203,690 Golden Candy Canes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

'The Anti-Government Hour' is a popular programme on many of Festival beetles's radio stations, every workday begins with group therapy, children are brainwashed at a young age to accept "love and peace!" as a way of life, and songs in 4/4 time are simply too common for the musical cognoscenti. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Festival beetles's national animal is the Leprechaun, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Athyism.

Festival beetles is ranked 274,763^rd in the world and 7^th in World of Beetles for Fattest Citizens, with 2.92 Obesity Rate.