The Pizza Loving Lucky Colony of Silver beetles is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Ringa Beetles with a fair hand, and renowned for its soft-spoken computers, smutty television, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 7.506 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 Silvyrian economy, worth a remarkable 1,964 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 261,757 Golden Yggdrasil Leaves, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is giving peace a chance, the nation's navy has been named the scourge of the seven thousand seas, the tools of the trade for landmine clearance appear to be copious amounts of gasoline and a box of matches, and Ringa Beetles's media campaigns take a hiatus around exam week. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Silver beetles's national animal is the Leprechaun, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Athyism.

Silver beetles is ranked 919^th in the world and 77^th in World of Beetles for Lowest Crime Rates, with 173.97 law-abiding acts per hour.