The Hong Kong 香港 of New Cordyceps is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Chief Executive Carrie Lam with an even hand, and renowned for its infamous sell-swords, public floggings, and daily referendums. The compassionate population of 2.418 billion Hongkongers are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Causeway Bay. The average income tax rate is 97.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Hongkong economy, worth 292 trillion Hong Kong dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry. Average income is an impressive 121,122 Hong Kong dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Airplane passenger seat sizes and ticket prices are both first-class, children are disappointed to learn that cavemen never had a yabba-dabba-doo time riding dinosaurs to work, 50% of adverts on children's television are for clothes made of cotton wool, and Merry Birthday is a popular protest song despite the risk of fines and royalty dues. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Cordyceps's national animal is the Loong, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

New Cordyceps is ranked 75,473^rd in the world and 2,112^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 68 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.