The Pizza Loving Lucky Colony of Zophie beetles is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Santa Claus with a fair hand, and remarkable for its compulsory vegetarianism, anti-smoking policies, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.574 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 98.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Zophyian economy, worth 684 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 Tourism. Average income is an impressive 191,560 Golden Candy Canes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is constantly producing new maps to accommodate the continual renaming of cities, children spend all morning taking out a comma and all afternoon putting it back in again, kindergartners' favourite dance move is the stop-drop-and-roll, and a typical fast food menu item could serve a small army. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zophie beetles's national animal is the Leprechaun, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Athyism.

Zophie beetles is ranked 1,378^th in the world and 16^th in World of Beetles for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring 71 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.