The Colony of Reginoptera is a massive, orderly nation, notable for its state-planned economy, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 3.205 billion wasps are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Central Hive Cluster. The average income tax rate is 93.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Hivemind economy, worth 235 trillion honeycombs 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 mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Basket Weaving, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 73,466 honeycombs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

When shaking hands with foreign leaders Leader wears an armoured gauntlet, the nation's new currency features full-length portraits of Leader in ermine and velvet garb, red fabric is banned, and enemy combatants are presumed guilty until proven innocent. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Reginoptera's national animal is the wasp, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Reginoptera is ranked 289,331^st in the world and 7,153^rd in the Rejected Realms for Most Armed, with 0.13 weapons per person.