The Pizza Loving Lucky Colony of Leaf beetles is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Ringa Beetles with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and prohibition of alcohol. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 7.552 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 Lyafian economy, worth a remarkable 2,010 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 266,211 Golden Yggdrasil Leaves, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government has instituted 'traveller reservations' across the country, explicit slash fiction is repackaged for kindergarten kids as stories about friends cuddling friends, libraries are bulldozed to make way for internet cafés, and elections have become procedural nightmares due to voters persistently rejecting candidates. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Leaf beetles's national animal is the Leprechaun, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Athyism.

Leaf beetles is ranked 850^th in the world and 24^th in World of Beetles for Most Beautiful Environments, with 5,474.19 pounds of wildlife per square mile.