The Dark Salmon Node of Node Dark Salmon is a colossal, orderly nation, remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, disturbing lack of elderly people, and zero percent divorce rate. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 4.657 billion Node Dark Salmonians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 66.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Node Dark Salmonian economy, worth 582 trillion Nodecoins 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, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, 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 an impressive 124,904 Nodecoins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

School lunches are made with hypo-allergenic wood pulp, Node Dark Salmonian watches list strained wrists as a common side effect, billions of Nodecoins are being blown on orbital weapons development, and a niche industry catering to S&M enthusiasts has sprung up. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Node Dark Salmon's national animal is the Circuit, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Node Dark Salmon is ranked 56,340^th in the world and 77^th in The Node for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 2,966.74 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.