The Pizza Loving Lucky Colony of Red beetles is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Santa Claus with a fair hand, and notable for its compulsory vegetarianism, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.869 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 Rydian economy, worth 760 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 Soda Sales. Average income is an impressive 196,536 Golden Candy Canes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Groups of government workers are declared protected tribes if they venture too deep into the Capitol, paranoid museum guards keep a lookout for any animated displays attempting to escape the premises after dark, fireworks and other big bangs are forbidden during the newest public holiday, and babies are a small but significant export. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Red beetles's national animal is the Leprechaun, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Athyism.

Red beetles is ranked 256,529^th in the world and 39^th in World of Beetles for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -9.38 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.