The Light Salmon Node of Node Light Salmon is a colossal, orderly nation, remarkable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.664 billion Node Light Salmonians 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 77.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Node Light Salmonian economy, worth 535 trillion Nodecoins a year, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 114,909 Nodecoins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

Preservative manufacturers are told to put a lid on it, activists sabotage clean energy in the name of the environment, the annual government yacht trip is sponsored by criminal syndicates, and counselors have to sign pledges supporting gay rights before they can speak to any patients. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Node Light Salmon's national animal is the Circuit, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Node Light Salmon is ranked 121,101^st in the world and 13^th in The Node for Highest Drug Use, scoring 137.86 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.