The Dark Slate Gray Node of Node Dark Slate Gray is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its smutty television, parental licensing program, and daily referendums. The cynical, devout population of 4.719 billion Node Dark Slate Grayians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 78.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Node Dark Slate Grayian economy, worth 499 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, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Furniture Restoration. 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 105,804 Nodecoins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Leader's new door-knocking campaign has the sweet taste of success, all facts are created equal, it is still not known if the commander in chief outranks the supreme commander, and blind students are at a disadvantage now that test papers printed in braille have been discontinued. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Node Dark Slate Gray's national animal is the Circuit, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Node Dark Slate Gray is ranked 34,992^nd in the world and 36^th in The Node for Highest Poor Incomes, with 70,009.95 Standard Monetary Units.