The Hong Kong of New Cordyceps is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Chief Executive Carrie Lam with an even hand, and renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, irreverence towards religion, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate population of 2.463 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 298 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.

Anti-government web sites are springing up, road signs are getting harder to read under layers of knitted woolen cardigans, criminals are put to death while cuddling their favourite teddy bear, and the children of New Cordyceps are often remarked upon for their cheery attitude to extreme violence. 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 287,600^th in the world and 6,204^th in The North Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -18.95 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.