The Principality of The Huangpu River is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Prince Yi with an even hand, and remarkable for its public floggings, aversion to nipples, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 2.944 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 Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pudong. The average income tax rate is 87.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Shanghainese economy, worth 330 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 112,140 jiangbis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is washing its hands of alleged corruption, treason is relative, criminals and college students are taking an interest in the government's new weed-killing program, and the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller. 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 29,909^th in the world and 8^th in China for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 5,687.6 on the Gilded Widget Scale.