The Pizza Loving Lucky Colony of Lunar beetles is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Santa Claus with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.846 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 99.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Lunarian economy, worth 770 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 Tourism. Average income is an amazing 200,232 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 Lunar beetles's radio stations, politicians have literally dirty hands from their extracurricular activities, Loud Patriotic Music Day has been ranked the seventh best new holiday of the year, and gossip magazines have pictures of Santa Claus sunbathing on the beach with political rivals. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lunar beetles's national animal is the Leprechaun, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Athyism.

Lunar beetles is ranked 4,383^rd in the world and 80^th in World of Beetles for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 10,455.1 on the Gilded Widget Scale.