The Hong Kong of New Cordyceps is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Chief Executive Carrie Lam with an even hand, and notable for its state-planned economy, frequent executions, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 2.444 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 295 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 121,051 Hong Kong dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Most foreigners can't name the leader of New Cordyceps, there's no escape from the rule of law... or police brutality, folk are absolutely certain that you can never be absolutely certain, and mothers are routinely abandoning their children in the name of women's rights. 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 272,257^th in the world and 5,612^th in The North Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -258.32 on the Scary Big Number Scale.