The Gainsboro Node of Node Gainsboro is a colossal, safe nation, notable for its frequent executions, smutty television, and parental licensing program. The cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.58 billion Node Gainsboroans 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 Education. The average income tax rate is 71.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Node Gainsboroan economy, worth 501 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 black market in Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, 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 109,529 Nodecoins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.2 times as much as the poorest.

Large sections of Node Gainsboro have been named national reserves to protect the native tribes living there, a suspicious number of male students have joined the Ladies' Wrestling League, organ donation is compulsory, and frequent fliers are obliged to submit to invasive security procedures by government security. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Node Gainsboro's national animal is the Circuit, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Node Gainsboro is ranked 37,333^rd in the world and 36^th in The Node for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 71.12 Effective Tax Rate.