The Cornflower Blue Node of Node Cornflower Blue is a colossal, genial nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, frequent executions, and punitive income tax rates. The cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.736 billion Node Cornflower Blueans 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, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 72.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Node Cornflower Bluean economy, worth 487 trillion Nodecoins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Cheese Exports. Average income is an impressive 102,834 Nodecoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Welfare recipients frequently parlay checks into homelessness, wedding bands come in pairs to form wedding manacles, no suburban lawn is complete without barbed wire and landmines, and the urban poor thumbs down the new hitchhiking ban. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Node Cornflower Blue's national animal is the Circuit, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Node Cornflower Blue is ranked 41,989^th in the world and 25^th in The Node for Smartest Citizens, with 47.84 quips per hour.