The Deep Sleep of New Kowloon Bay is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Jasmine Shing with an iron fist, and remarkable for its vat-grown people, unlimited-speed roads, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 8.401 billion Kowloonis are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Greater Kowloon Metropolis. The average income tax rate is 99.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Kowlooni economy, worth a remarkable 4,230 trillion Bay Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is a breathtaking 503,561 Bay Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

The deaf are perplexed when the weather report tells them that the wind will be "bringing some rain along the Nazi ghosts", money grows on trees, human sacrifice to the metaphorical altar of Mammon ensures national prosperity, and politicians look weirdly alike. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Kowloon Bay's national animal is the Dolphin of the Skies, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is State Atheism.

New Kowloon Bay is ranked 290,329^th in the world and 808^th in 10000 Islands for Nicest Citizens, with 0.2 average smiles per day.