The Chocolate Node of Node Chocolate is a colossal, orderly nation, remarkable for its soft-spoken computers, lack of airports, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.601 billion Node Chocolateans 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 66.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Node Chocolatean economy, worth 609 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 Automobile Manufacturing. 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 132,419 Nodecoins, with the richest citizens earning 8.4 times as much as the poorest.

Invasive drug testing is now performed at elementary school sports days, mothers drive their college-graduate children to work, diplomats agree to the terms and conditions of peace treaties without reading them, and it's believed that women's brains will overheat if they think for themselves. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Node Chocolate's national animal is the Circuit, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Node Chocolate is ranked 304,042^nd in the world and 127^th in The Node for Safest, scoring 14.14 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.