The Pizza Loving Lucky Colony of Fortune beetles is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Santa Claus with a fair hand, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, smutty television, and compulsory vegetarianism. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.869 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 Education, Administration, 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 Fortunian economy, worth 767 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 major contributions from Book Publishing and Pizza Delivery. Average income is an impressive 198,289 Golden Candy Canes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Nobody is allowed to stop the local daycare from reading Nietzsche to pre-schoolers, it can be a real jungle in a modern courtroom, Eau de Trashcan has become a wildly popular perfume, and dreams of replicator technology have been dashed following a ban on 3D printers. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Fortune beetles's national animal is the Leprechaun, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Athyism.

Fortune beetles is ranked 274,223^rd in the world and 85^th in World of Beetles for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -12.13 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.