The Republic of Ulm 206 is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, public floggings, and avowedly heterosexual populace. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 1.531 billion Ulm 206ians 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 46.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Ulm 206ian economy, worth 172 trillion Ducats a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Cheese Exports, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 112,355 Ducats, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.3 times as much as the poorest.

Any citizen who cries is immediately assigned a psychiatrist, wars of expansion are described as "peacekeeping operations", the government seizes the property of the recently deceased, and human sacrifice to the metaphorical altar of Mammon ensures national prosperity. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ulm 206's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ulm 206 is ranked 45,152^nd in the world and 93^rd in Swabian autonomous region for Nicest Citizens, with 18.02 average smiles per day.