The People's United Kingdom of New Cordyceps is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Chief Executive Carrie Lam with an even hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, frequent executions, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 2.388 billion Britons 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 Tsim Sha Tsui 尖沙咀. The average income tax rate is 97.0%.

The frighteningly efficient British economy, worth 291 trillion Quid a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism. Average income is an impressive 121,948 Quid, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Evenings at university debating societies often end with everyone acknowledging both sides may well be right, moonshine has made a resurgence, Loud Patriotic Music Day has been ranked the seventh best new holiday of the year, and heart attack victims are thrown onto the rails. 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 British Unicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

New Cordyceps is ranked 3,284^th in the world and 159^th in The North Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 127.89 law-abiding acts per hour.