The Olive Node of Node Olive is a colossal, genial nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, public floggings, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.521 billion Node Oliveans 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 large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 74.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Node Olivean economy, worth 553 trillion Nodecoins a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an impressive 122,392 Nodecoins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.7 times as much as the poorest.

Wealthy parents-to-be can select their perfect baby, stony-faced prosecutors play loud gangster rap music during court proceedings, cities in Node Olive declare independence based on interpretation of the historic meaning of cave paintings, and elections have become procedural nightmares due to voters persistently rejecting candidates. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Node Olive's national animal is the Circuit, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Node Olive is ranked 121,759^th in the world and 21^st in The Node for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 1,715.83 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.