The Incorporated States of Ulm 126 is a massive, genial nation, remarkable for its public floggings, ubiquitous missile silos, and state-planned economy. The compassionate, humorless, devout population of 1.818 billion Ulm 126ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 52.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Ulm 126ian economy, worth 210 trillion rupees 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 large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Automobile Manufacturing. 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 115,878 rupees, with the richest citizens earning 6.7 times as much as the poorest.

The national census includes an opt-in to join the government-run dating service, it can be a real jungle in a modern courtroom, nobody is allowed to stop the local daycare from reading Nietzsche to pre-schoolers, and students and teachers are regularly stopped and searched for symbols of religious affiliation before class. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ulm 126's national animal is the swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ulm 126 is ranked 28,965^th in the world and 86^th in Swabian autonomous region for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 255.79 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.