The Deep Sleep of New Kowloon Bay is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Jasmine Shing with an iron fist, and renowned for its soft-spoken computers, keen interest in outer space, and digital currency. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 8.438 billion Kowloonis are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Greater Kowloon Metropolis. The average income tax rate is 99.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Kowlooni economy, worth a remarkable 4,228 trillion Bay Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is a breathtaking 501,116 Bay Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

People are more interested in gossip about the private lives of politicians than their policies, the subway is dead quiet in early afternoons, search and rescue forces now accept cheques and all major credit cards, and the police insist that racism does not exist. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Kowloon Bay's national animal is the Dolphin of the Skies, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is State Atheism.

New Kowloon Bay is ranked 292,493^rd in the world and 830^th in 10000 Islands for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 1,503.35 Standard Monetary Units.