The United Socialist States of Teluk Karang is a massive, cultured nation, remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, daily referendums, and otherworldly petting zoo. The compassionate population of 1.387 billion Teluk Karangians 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 Welfare, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Anak-Teluk City. The average income tax rate is 55.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Teluk Karangian economy, worth 37.2 trillion Satus a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 26,812 Satus, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The subway is dead quiet in early afternoons, scientists are terrified of fabulous new breakthroughs, the "boy who cried wolf" policy makes sick people reluctant to call an ambulance, and solid-gold toilets are Teluk Karangian prisons' least expensive furnishings. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Teluk Karang's national animal is the Merah Hawk, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Teluk Karang is ranked 30,313^th in the world and 114^th in The Frontier Sea for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 51.46 on the Kitten Softness Rating.