The Pale Green Node of Node Pale Green is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its parental licensing program, avant-garde cinema, and avowedly heterosexual populace. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.741 billion Node Pale Greenians 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, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 66.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Node Pale Greenian economy, worth 643 trillion Nodecoins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Tourism. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 135,574 Nodecoins, with the richest citizens earning 5.1 times as much as the poorest.

Code enforcement officers circle wealthy Node Pale Greenians like vultures, the easiest method of escaping from prison is to take singing lessons, diplomats agree to the terms and conditions of peace treaties without reading them, and major cities run on potato batteries. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Node Pale Green's national animal is the Circuit, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Node Pale Green is ranked 309,397^th in the world and 86^th in The Node for Rudest Citizens, with 8.79 insults per minute.