The Pizza Loving Lucky Colony of River beetles is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Ringa Beetles with a fair hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, avant-garde cinema, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 7.517 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 Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yggdrasil. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Rivyrian economy, worth a remarkable 2,003 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 Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Pizza Delivery. Average income is an amazing 266,498 Golden Yggdrasil Leaves, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The new intercity submarine SSN Leprechaun Warrior instills terror in claustrophobic travellers, calling dibs is an unalienable right, police officers catch up on their paperwork while handing their caseload to PIs, and a flying elephant and Ringa Beetles share the same nickname. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. River beetles's national animal is the Leprechaun, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Athyism.

River beetles is ranked 1,365^th in the world and 45^th in World of Beetles for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 23,741.67 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.