The Gushroom Morge of Mushroom Gorge is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by anarchy with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, infamous sell-swords, and strictly enforced bedtime. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.406 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 relatively small, 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 19.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Mushroom Gorger economy, worth 891 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 reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 105,974 Mushroom credits, with the richest citizens earning 6.4 times as much as the poorest.

Belief that anarchy is a lizard-person from outer space has reached an all-time high, the School of Hard Knocks is receiving record application numbers., it is customary to begin the summer with a fasting ritual in which people eat nothing but kumquat smoothies, and the Ministry of Truthiness now manages the entire media industry. 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 300,484^th in the world and 1^st in Mushroom Gorge for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 473.28 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.