The Gushroom Morge of Mushroom Gorge is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by anarchy with an iron fist, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, compulsory military service, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.249 billion Mushroom Gorgers are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mushroom City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 23.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Mushroom Gorger economy, worth 889 trillion Mushroom credits a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 107,855 Mushroom credits, with the richest citizens earning 5.7 times as much as the poorest.

Virtual assistants are seen with increasing suspicion every time they get an upgrade, incidents involving lethal string attacks have gone way up, children wondering what happens to pets after they die are shown where the compost heap is, and a new guerrilla marketing campaign for tap water involves government agents spraying random citizens with hose water. Crime is pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Mushroom Gorge's national animal is the koopa troopa, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Mushroom Gorge is ranked 56,247^th in the world and 1^st in Mushroom Gorge for Highest Average Incomes, with 107,855.4 Standard Monetary Units.