The Old Lace Node of Node Old Lace is a colossal, genial nation, remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, parental licensing program, and ubiquitous missile silos. The compassionate, humorless, devout population of 4.677 billion Node Old Laceans 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 Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 70.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Node Old Lacean economy, worth 569 trillion Nodecoins a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 121,634 Nodecoins, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 488,241 per year while the poor average 20,306, a ratio of 24.0 to 1.

Illicit spice trade makes desert merchants wrangling worms blush, citizens re-mortgage their homes to buy lottery tickets, Node Old Lace shot first, and Node Old Lace's first free elections in recent memory have been successfully concluded. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Node Old Lace's national animal is the Circuit, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Node Old Lace is ranked 34,241^st in the world and 25^th in The Node for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 3,769.59 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.