The Pizza Loving Lucky Colony of Maple beetles is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Santa Claus with a fair hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, smutty television, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.552 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 99.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Maplian economy, worth 678 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 Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 191,146 Golden Candy Canes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Morale within the seismologist community has hit rock bottom, atheistic refugees haven't got a prayer of being granted asylum, passive-aggressive congratulations cards inform mums-to-be that their pregnancy is their greatest achievement in life, and toy versions of heroin paraphernalia let kids pretend to be their favourite TV characters. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Maple beetles's national animal is the Leprechaun, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Athyism.

Maple beetles is ranked 51,044^th in the world and 50^th in World of Beetles for Most Stationary, with 603.3883985534 days.