The Most Serene Republic of Ulm 167 is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its infamous sell-swords, avant-garde cinema, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 1.875 billion Ulm 167ians 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 59.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Ulm 167ian economy, worth 245 trillion dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 130,941 dollars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 529,836 per year while the poor average 21,570, a ratio of 24.6 to 1.

Fixing attendance at women's matches is a matter of "when they go low, we go high... funding", punitive tariffs protect local industry, whenever pilots have to bail out the government bails out their company, and "Darwin's Disease" is a growing cause of death. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ulm 167's national animal is the parrot, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Ulm 167 is ranked 72,229^th in the world and 311^th in Swabian autonomous region for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 59.4 Effective Tax Rate.