The Pizza Loving Lucky Colony of Mirage beetles is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Santa Claus with a fair hand, and remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.804 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 Miragian economy, worth 766 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 201,415 Golden Candy Canes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Suburban backyards are seized by the government and turned into national parks, foreign livestock are offered asylum, leather-clad individuals can be seen walking their slaves in public parks, and incarcerated crime lords manage their empires from massage tables. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mirage beetles's national animal is the Leprechaun, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Athyism.

Mirage beetles is ranked 258,804^th in the world and 51^st in World of Beetles for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry, scoring -17.15 on the Tasmanian Pulp Environmental Export Index.