The Community of Ulm 148 is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its ritual sacrifices, zero percent divorce rate, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 1.803 billion Ulm 148ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 60.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ulm 148ian economy, worth 234 trillion marks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 130,083 marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

The nation solves other countries' human rights problems with a generous dose of violence, homeless people can be found sleeping on streets in front of unoccupied second homes, members of the government all have oddly similar anecdotes about their childhoods, and the letters L, G, and B must never be grouped together. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ulm 148's national animal is the panther, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Ulm 148 is ranked 213,122^nd in the world and 161^st in Swabian autonomous region for Largest Populations, with 1.80 billion capita.