The Hong Kong of New Cordyceps is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Chief Executive Carrie Lam with an even hand, and renowned for its soft-spoken computers, avant-garde cinema, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 2.498 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 97.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Hongkong economy, worth 302 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 121,180 Hong Kong dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Families waiting for delayed pipe installations hope daily for rain, no one gossips with Chief Executive Carrie Lam during diplomatic summits, polygamy is legal, and bowling teams spend more time looking at their phones than the pins. 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 4,921^st in the world and 136^th in The North Pacific for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 12,099.58 on the Gilded Widget Scale.