The Pizza Loving Lucky Colony of Ghost beetles is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Ringa Beetles with a fair hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, daily referendums, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 7.47 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 Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yggdrasil. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Ghostian economy, worth a remarkable 2,001 trillion Golden Yggdrasil Leaves a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Pizza Delivery. Average income is an amazing 267,969 Golden Yggdrasil Leaves, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens are encouraged to report friends, family members or co-workers who seem depressed to the government for "counselling", Ringa Beetles's new door-knocking campaign has the sweet taste of success, people who tease dwarfs are being cut down to size, and a bill to outlaw math homework has been submitted. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ghost beetles's national animal is the Leprechaun, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Athyism.

Ghost beetles is ranked 777^th in the world and 10^th in World of Beetles for Lowest Crime Rates, with 179.16 law-abiding acts per hour.