The Allied States of Ulm 199 is a massive, efficient nation, notable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, parental licensing program, and punitive income tax rates. The cynical, humorless population of 1.823 billion Ulm 199ians 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 large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 72.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Ulm 199ian economy, worth 225 trillion dollars 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 slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Trout Farming. 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 123,614 dollars, with the richest citizens earning 9.0 times as much as the poorest.

Ulm 199ian tourists are banned from many nations due to their tendency to randomly explode, increasing numbers of children in Ulm 199 have different eye and hair color to their supposed fathers, the same 1823 social media bloggers always loudly and immediately agree with Leader's every word on Twitcher, and motorists must pay to enter inner-cities during peak hours. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ulm 199's national animal is the giraffe, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ulm 199 is ranked 28,013^th in the world and 67^th in Swabian autonomous region for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 260.55 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.