The Pizza Loving Lucky Colony of Birthday beetles is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Ringa Beetles with a fair hand, and renowned for its lack of airports, soft-spoken computers, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 7.526 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 Birthdayan economy, worth a remarkable 2,005 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 266,481 Golden Yggdrasil Leaves, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Debates on whether toilet seats should be left up or down are increasingly commonplace, many marriages go virtually unconsummated, calling dibs is an unalienable right, and Ringa Beetles's speeches are beloved by insomniacs. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Birthday beetles's national animal is the Leprechaun, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Athyism.

Birthday beetles is ranked 286,838^th in the world and 69^th in World of Beetles for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -18.38 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.