The Brown Node of Node Brown is a colossal, orderly nation, remarkable for its public floggings, parental licensing program, and keen interest in outer space. The cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.615 billion Node Brownians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 73.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Node Brownian economy, worth 570 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 slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Furniture Restoration, and Uranium Mining. 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 123,725 Nodecoins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

Sales of disinfectant wipes have skyrocketed, the government considers it a sacred duty to video bikini-clad beach swimmers, human tissue is grown in vats as a delicacy as well as for transplants, and university admissions staff are blindfolded to prevent accidental bias. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Node Brown's national animal is the Circuit, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Node Brown is ranked 30,862^nd in the world and 22^nd in The Node for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 72.98 Effective Tax Rate.