The Swabian Autonomous Zone of Ulm 12 is a massive, efficient nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, free-roaming dinosaurs, and compulsory gun ownership. The cynical, devout population of 2.198 billion Ulm 12ians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rameralsk. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 64.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Ulm 12ian economy, worth 278 trillion ducats 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 a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Woodchip Exports. 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 an impressive 126,680 ducats, with the richest citizens earning 6.0 times as much as the poorest.

The long arm of the law possesses a rather slow hand, Ulm 12ian tourists are banned from many nations due to their tendency to randomly explode, self-sufficiency is built on seizing foreign assets, and prisoners due for execution often use their final statement to complain about soggy bread rolls. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ulm 12's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ulm 12 is ranked 268,709^th in the world and 308^th in Swabian autonomous region for Nicest Citizens, with 6.84 average smiles per day.