The Burlywood Node of Node Burlywood is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its lack of airports, compulsory military service, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, devout population of 4.563 billion Node Burlywoodians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 61.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Node Burlywoodian economy, worth 577 trillion Nodecoins a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 126,620 Nodecoins, with the richest citizens earning 7.7 times as much as the poorest.

A large concrete wall is being built around the country's borders, people on the brink of death are put through unwanted and stressful procedures, music award shows include surprise polygraph segments, and compass sales have gone south. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Node Burlywood's national animal is the Circuit, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Node Burlywood is ranked 280,698^th in the world and 104^th in The Node for Nicest Citizens, with 4 average smiles per day.