The Pizza Loving Lucky Colony of Flower beetles is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Santa Claus with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, prohibition of alcohol, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.848 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 Flowyrian economy, worth 757 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 and Pizza Delivery. Average income is an impressive 196,801 Golden Candy Canes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Drones are unable to lift the weight of their accompanying paperwork, hospitals in Flower beetles are too busy serving the needs of World of Beetles to see Beetles, the new coalition government is so large nobody knows where it begins, and 4-year-olds are often found reminiscing about the 'good old days'. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Flower beetles's national animal is the Leprechaun, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Athyism.

Flower beetles is ranked 258,194^th in the world and 49^th in World of Beetles for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -9.59 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.