in reply to faking out CGI.pm

To expand on Joost's suggestion, you could create a file containing the pre-specified NAME=VALUE pairs.
__DATA__ foo_field=foo's_value bar_field=bar's_value ...
Then, it's just a matter of getting a filehandle and instantiating a CGI object with it:
open(IFH, $CGI_filename) || die ... my $query = CGI->new(IFH); my $field = $query->param('foo_field'); print $field, "\n"; __OUTPUT__ foo's_value

Your wish is my commandline.