The Dark Orchid Node of Node Dark Orchid is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, daily referendums, and parental licensing program. The compassionate, devout population of 4.77 billion Node Dark Orchidians 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 large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 73.0%.
The frighteningly efficient Node Dark Orchidian economy, worth 562 trillion Nodecoins a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 117,864 Nodecoins, with the richest citizens earning 5.9 times as much as the poorest.
Airplane passengers have been known to stuff pillows in their jackets to get extra arm room, the politician's labor union forces stage names upon candidates, the government seizes corporate assets it deems 'scary enough', and gamblers often find their stakes burnt. 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 Orchid's national animal is the Circuit, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Node Dark Orchid is ranked 264,332nd in the world and 107th in The Node for Longest Average Lifespans, with 61.74 years.
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Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Node Dark Orchid, gamblers often find their stakes burnt.
- : Following new legislation in Node Dark Orchid, the government seizes corporate assets it deems 'scary enough'.
- : Following new legislation in Node Dark Orchid, the politician's labor union forces stage names upon candidates.
- : Following new legislation in Node Dark Orchid, airplane passengers have been known to stuff pillows in their jackets to get extra arm room.
- : Following new legislation in Node Dark Orchid, commuters travel in zigzags to avoid stalking accusations.
- : Following new legislation in Node Dark Orchid, a weakened police force struggles to maintain law and order.
- : Following new legislation in Node Dark Orchid, money that should have gone to charities is instead spent on monitoring them.
- : Following new legislation in Node Dark Orchid, the standardised national curriculum requires that all-male classes be taught why they have periods.
- : Following new legislation in Node Dark Orchid, forty-year-old men are asked for their ID before watching the latest pony cartoon movies.
- : Following new legislation in Node Dark Orchid, a suspicious number of John Smiths are known to donate to Node Dark Orchidian politicians.