The Dark Blue Node of Node Dark Blue is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its national health service, keen interest in outer space, and digital currency. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.637 billion Node Dark Blueans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 73.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Node Dark Bluean economy, worth 554 trillion Nodecoins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 119,546 Nodecoins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

Optometrists will see citizens in seconds but health inspectors won't be sighted for years, squeaky high prepubescent voices recite the patriotic poem "Hail to The Leader!" before each meal, lobotomies haven't been the same after the practice was severed, and signs of extraterrestrial life are just foreign astronauts evading Node Dark Bluean justice. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Node Dark Blue's national animal is the Circuit, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Node Dark Blue is ranked 29,381^st in the world and 18^th in The Node for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 73.48 Effective Tax Rate.