The White Smoke Node of Node White Smoke is a colossal, orderly nation, remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, pith helmet sales, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 4.58 billion Node White Smokeans 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 Law & Order, Defense, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 51.5%.

The all-consuming Node White Smokean economy, worth 533 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, fairly 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 116,379 Nodecoins, with the richest citizens earning 8.5 times as much as the poorest.

Women across the country are tying the knot, policemen regularly conduct midnight raids on closed donut shops to 'collect evidence', the threat of economic apocalypse brings out the best in people, and Goldilocks has found a lucrative career as a zoning consultant. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Node White Smoke's national animal is the Circuit, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Node White Smoke is ranked 169,648^th in the world and 99^th in The Node for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 951.7 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.