The Pizza Loving Lucky Colony of Winter beetles is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Santa Claus with a fair hand, and remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, keen interest in outer space, and state-planned economy. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.855 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 99.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Wintyrian economy, worth 786 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 Basket Weaving. Average income is an amazing 203,998 Golden Candy Canes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It is mandatory to learn evolution in schools, landless farmers wander forlornly in the government's many national parks, sales of pregnancy testing kits are booming, and legislation sometimes has to battle through weeks of filibustering to pass. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Winter beetles's national animal is the Leprechaun, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Athyism.

Winter beetles is ranked 265,119^th in the world and 88^th in World of Beetles for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -11.05 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.