The Midnight Blue Node of Node Midnight Blue is a colossal, orderly nation, notable for its enslaved workforce, public floggings, and suspicion of poets. The cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.688 billion Node Midnight Blueans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 38.2%.

The all-consuming Node Midnight Bluean economy, worth 525 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, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, 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 111,939 Nodecoins, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 345,102 per year while the poor average 28,031, a ratio of 12.3 to 1.

Player-submitted issues are printed just so they can be burned by [violet] (Node Midnight Blue has found 2 easter eggs), the nationalised Arms Manufacturing Industry is not interested in making weapons, sermons are regularly interrupted by businessmen taking phone calls, and boys are shocked by the revolutionary lesson that women are actually human. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Node Midnight Blue's national animal is the Circuit, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Node Midnight Blue is ranked 144,846^th in the world and 110^th in The Node for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 2,172.11 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.