The Hong Kong of New Cordyceps is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Chief Executive Carrie Lam with an even hand, and remarkable for its soft-spoken computers, avant-garde cinema, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate population of 2.486 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 301 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 121,245 Hong Kong dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The children of New Cordyceps are often remarked upon for their cheery attitude to extreme violence, the government takes agricultural advice from a wasp-themed superhero, arguments about toilet seats being left up or down get surprisingly heated, and families waiting for delayed pipe installations hope daily for rain. 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 81,326^th in the world and 1,845^th in The North Pacific for Most Corrupt Governments, with 19.93 kickbacks per hour.