The Hot Commodity of Red Beetle is a massive, safe nation, ruled by VW Wagen with an even hand, and renowned for its prohibition of alcohol, ubiquitous missile silos, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, devout population of 4.263 billion Red Beetleans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 67.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Red Beetlean economy, worth 373 trillion Beetleses a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 87,599 Beetleses, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Red Beetle City is a police state during international summits, members of the government all have oddly similar anecdotes about their childhoods, rumor has it that VW Wagen has won three lotteries in a row, and concert halls sport signs proclaiming "No Shorts, Sandals or Swastikas". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Red Beetle's national animal is the Red Beetle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Red Beetle is ranked 122,330^th in the world and 5,009^th in Balder for Safest, scoring 73.3 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.