The Medium Turquoise Node of Node Medium Turquoise is a colossal, orderly nation, renowned for its closed borders, compulsory gun ownership, and devotion to social welfare. The cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.603 billion Node Medium Turquoiseans 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 medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 55.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Node Medium Turquoisean economy, worth 572 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, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Cheese Exports. 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 124,268 Nodecoins, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 412,243 per year while the poor average 27,958, a ratio of 14.7 to 1.

Tabloids coo over Leader's expected child, the statue in the Berlusconi Plaza has a solar panel for a hat, military recruitment numbers are down as citizens object on 'moral grounds', and the "Underwear of Women in Power" issue of The Node Medium Turquoise City Times is sold out. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Node Medium Turquoise's national animal is the Circuit, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Node Medium Turquoise is ranked 80,435^th in the world and 112^th in The Node for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 55.53 Effective Tax Rate.