The Pizza Loving Lucky Colony of Cursed beetles is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Ringa Beetles with a fair hand, and renowned for its lack of airports, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 7.491 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 income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Cursian economy, worth a remarkable 1,973 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 263,450 Golden Yggdrasil Leaves, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government sends submarines to retrieve bodies from shipwrecked submarines, nobody looks each other in the eye at neighborhood block parties any more, people reciting Shakespeare have become a common sight, and people who tease dwarfs are being cut down to size. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cursed beetles's national animal is the Leprechaun, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Athyism.

Cursed beetles is ranked 791^st in the world and 21^st in World of Beetles for Lowest Crime Rates, with 178.16 law-abiding acts per hour.