The Ubiquitous missile silos of Mushroom Gorge is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by anarchy with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, unlimited-speed roads, and anti-smoking policies. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 5.227 billion Mushroom Gorgers enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The relatively small, corrupt, liberal, 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 8.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Mushroom Gorger economy, worth 535 trillion Mushroom credits a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Gambling. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 102,509 Mushroom credits, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 329,705 per year while the poor average 24,139, a ratio of 13.7 to 1.

The Mushroom Gorger cut of Apocalypse Now sets the helicopter scene to eerie silence, farm turkeys are given high doses of antidepressants to take their minds off the holiday season, academics have a bone to pick with free market entrepreneurs, and all you have to do is pray to get into Mushroom Gorge. 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 7,935^th in the world and 4^th in Callista for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 93,488.64 Standard Monetary Units.