The Community of Ulm 156 is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its parental licensing program, frequent executions, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 1.889 billion Ulm 156ians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 73.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Ulm 156ian economy, worth 286 trillion rubles 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, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, 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 151,405 rubles, with the richest citizens earning 8.9 times as much as the poorest.

Children as young as six shock their parents by coming out of the closet, lawyers spend as much time preparing their make-up as they do their briefs, large sections of Ulm 156 have been named national reserves to protect the native tribes living there, and colonists who were promised new lands find only war-torn devastation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ulm 156's national animal is the cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ulm 156 is ranked 120,738^th in the world and 213^th in Swabian autonomous region for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 40,879.51 Standard Monetary Units.