The Principality of The Huangpu River is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Prince Yi with an even hand, and remarkable for its public floggings, state-planned economy, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 2.97 billion Shanghainese are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pudong. The average income tax rate is 88.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Shanghainese economy, worth 331 trillion jiangbis a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism. Average income is an impressive 111,677 jiangbis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government supplies ragtag bands of resistance fighters in exchange for vague promises of future payment, high-income earners pay a 100% tax rate, the rich and poor vomit into separate bags, and innocent defendants often plead guilty for fear of receiving a much harsher sentence before jury. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Huangpu River's national animal is the panda, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is State Atheism.

The Huangpu River is ranked 101,039^th in the world and 32^nd in China for Most Patriotic, with 14.97 flags saluted per person per day.