The Pizza Loving Lucky Colony of June beetles is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Santa Claus with a fair hand, and notable for its compulsory vegetarianism, anti-smoking policies, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.808 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 Junian economy, worth 761 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 Soda Sales. Average income is an impressive 199,976 Golden Candy Canes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The death penalty has been reintroduced, organised sports are frowned upon as frivolous, a five-year-old and a convicted terrorist can sit alongside one another in jury service, and all beauty contests have been banned. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. June beetles's national animal is the Leprechaun, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Athyism.

June beetles is ranked 33,006^th in the world and 44^th in World of Beetles for Most Influential, scoring 1,293 on the Soft Power Disbursement Rating.