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 frequent executions, avant-garde cinema, and soft-spoken computers. The compassionate population of 2.457 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 297 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 121,018 Hong Kong dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There's no escape from the rule of law... or police brutality, folk are absolutely certain that you can never be absolutely certain, mothers are routinely abandoning their children in the name of women's rights, and anti-government web sites are springing up. 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 6,236^th in the world and 248^th in The North Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 13,800.31 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.