The Linen Node of Node Linen is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its pith helmet sales, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The devout population of 4.582 billion Node Linenians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 74.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Node Linenian economy, worth 573 trillion Nodecoins a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 125,168 Nodecoins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, a blood-red mark on the doorframe means a building must be passed over for destruction, fewer people are bathing as citizens must show ration stamps before they can turn on their faucets, and supervisors in Node Linen commonly tie bells on their necks to alert employees of their presence. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Node Linen's national animal is the Circuit, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Node Linen is ranked 7,360^th in the world and 1^st in The Node for Safest, scoring 123.27 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.