The Pizza Loving Lucky Colony of Time beetles is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Santa Claus with a fair hand, and renowned for its irreverence towards religion, hatred of cheese, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.832 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 99.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Timian economy, worth 768 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 200,461 Golden Candy Canes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized, the Party has more splits than a yo-yo dieter's trousers, if there's something strange in your neighborhood you call Brancaland, and government reports are now used to teach toddlers to read. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Time beetles's national animal is the Leprechaun, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Athyism.

Time beetles is ranked 33,051^st in the world and 86^th in World of Beetles for Most Influential, scoring 1,293 on the Soft Power Disbursement Rating.