The Pizza Loving Lucky Colony of Gold beetles is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Ringa Beetles with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, triple-decker prams, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 7.456 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 Goldian economy, worth a remarkable 1,974 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 264,783 Golden Yggdrasil Leaves, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Behind every great person are three dozen other people passing great memos, trains and passengers alike are often late, the best way to be heard in politics is to speak softly and carry a big comedy prop, and Gold beetles recently hosted the least successful trade negotiations since The Phantom Menace. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gold beetles's national animal is the Leprechaun, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Athyism.

Gold beetles is ranked 284,746^th in the world and 21^st in World of Beetles for Most Primitive, scoring -434.12 on the Scary Big Number Scale.