The Pizza Loving Lucky Colony of Storm beetles is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Santa Claus with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.834 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 Stormian economy, worth 787 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 major contributions from Book Publishing, Pizza Delivery, and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 205,453 Golden Candy Canes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Witnesses have to run a gauntlet of mob enforcers to testify at trials, signatures have been replaced with illegible scribbles, social networking sites have discussion groups devoted to planning terrorist attacks, and it is illegal for police officers to carry out searches due to strict privacy laws. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Storm beetles's national animal is the Leprechaun, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Athyism.

Storm beetles is ranked 33,046^th in the world and 84^th in World of Beetles for Most Influential, scoring 1,293 on the Soft Power Disbursement Rating.