The Dark Slate Gray Node of Node Dark Slate Gray is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its ritual sacrifices, disturbing lack of elderly people, and compulsory gun ownership. The cynical, devout population of 4.577 billion Node Dark Slate Grayians 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 enormous, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 78.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Node Dark Slate Grayian economy, worth 484 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, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Furniture Restoration. 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 105,804 Nodecoins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Leader's new door-knocking campaign has the sweet taste of success, all facts are created equal, it is still not known if the commander in chief outranks the supreme commander, and blind students are at a disadvantage now that test papers printed in braille have been discontinued. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Node Dark Slate Gray's national animal is the Circuit, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Node Dark Slate Gray is ranked 284,845^th in the world and 102^nd in The Node for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -7.76 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.