The Hong Kong of New Cordyceps is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Chief Executive Carrie Lam with an even hand, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, free-roaming dinosaurs, and public floggings. The compassionate population of 2.526 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 97.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Hongkong economy, worth 306 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 121,389 Hong Kong dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Arthritic surgeons with tremulous fingers reassure patients that they are in safe hands, the media seems excessively interested in what Chief Executive Carrie Lam is wearing this season, it is illegal to have the wrong clock time showing on your microwave oven, and excessive wheelchair ramps on government buildings have been compared to theme park attractions. 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 52,598^th in the world and 1,232^nd in The North Pacific for Most Patriotic, with 26.44 flags saluted per person per day.