The Pizza Loving Lucky Colony of Metal beetles is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Ringa Beetles with a fair hand, and notable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, lack of airports, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 7.579 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 income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Mytalian economy, worth a remarkable 2,014 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 Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Pizza Delivery. Average income is an amazing 265,761 Golden Yggdrasil Leaves, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The big red machine has ground to a halt, the delay between passed legislation and real world implementation is often a decade or longer, frightened witnesses and seriously ill jurors wear the same handcuffs as the defendant, and the weather report is the prisoners' favourite programme. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Metal beetles's national animal is the Leprechaun, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Athyism.

Metal beetles is ranked 3,607^th in the world and 48^th in World of Beetles for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 13,187.1 on the Gilded Widget Scale.