The Free Land of Ulm 102 is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, free-roaming dinosaurs, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 1.837 billion Ulm 102ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 69.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Ulm 102ian economy, worth 217 trillion pounds a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 118,133 pounds, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 581,112 per year while the poor average 13,713, a ratio of 42.4 to 1.

Shivering secretaries type letters under torrential downpours in open-roof offices, an aboriginal talking stick is used for leaders' debates at election time, hundreds of thousands of convicts work as slaves in Ulm 102's many privately-owned prisons, and trick-or-treaters and circus clowns have been arrested under suspicion of being renegade vigilantes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ulm 102's national animal is the kiwi, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Ulm 102 is ranked 275,629^th in the world and 304^th in Swabian autonomous region for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -7.39 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.