The People's Democratic Republic of Pulang is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by the State Council with an even hand, and notable for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 14.177 billion Pulangese are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kuala Tebing. The average income tax rate is 59.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Pulangese economy, worth 805 trillion ringgits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 56,790 ringgits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Soldiers are equipped with multi-million ringgit battlesuits, The State Council's office has a newly installed Max-Man arcade game programmed by a 5th-grader, religion is strictly forbidden within school grounds, and the government enforces a policy of 'from each according to their ability, to each according to the available budget'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pulang's national animal is the turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is state-sponsored atheism.

Pulang is ranked 62,787^th in the world and 3^rd in Mandalanusa for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 151.8 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.