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 state-planned economy, soft-spoken computers, and public floggings. The compassionate population of 2.546 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 309 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 121,615 Hong Kong dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sermons are regularly interrupted by businessmen taking phone calls, ersatz chicken has left the nation's citizens with a bad taste in their mouths, feuilletons can only be deciphered with a Galliennais dictionary, and citizens ask "how many crooks could a nunchuck hook if a nun had nunchucks too?". 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 25,664^th in the world and 975^th in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 242.75 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.