The Swabian Autonomous Zone of Ulm 19 is a massive, genial nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, enslaved workforce, and ubiquitous missile silos. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.125 billion Ulm 19ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Goralsk. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 70.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Ulm 19ian economy, worth 271 trillion Ducats a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 127,641 Ducats, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 384,071 per year while the poor average 33,092, a ratio of 11.6 to 1.

Internet ads promising "hot singles in your area" are even less accurate than they used to be, citizens are strongly encouraged to breathe less so as to limit the carbon footprint, scientific journals publish third-graders' school essays, and Goralsk's back alleys are rife with sausage eating. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ulm 19's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ulm 19 is ranked 30,440^th in the world and 198^th in Swabian autonomous region for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 27,446.52 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.