The Eusocial Colony of Big Beehive is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The Queen with an iron fist, and notable for its strictly enforced bedtime, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 13.959 billion Bees 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 enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Big Hive. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 77.7%.

The large but inefficient Apian economy, worth 900 trillion drops of honey a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Trout Farming, and Beef-Based Agriculture. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 64,475 drops of honey, with the richest citizens earning 5.6 times as much as the poorest.

Press conferences always end with standing ovations and rapturous applause, the secret service is working overtime to find anyone publishing unauthorized material about The Queen, people often get liposuction to reduce their air fares, and tuba players are paid to quietly whisper into their instruments. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Big Beehive's national animal is the honeybee, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Beeism.

Big Beehive is ranked 40,372^nd in the world and 5^th in That One Place for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 2,261.11 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.