The Republic of Ulm 219 is a massive, genial nation, remarkable for its ritual sacrifices, frequent executions, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 1.506 billion Ulm 219ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 77.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ulm 219ian economy, worth 178 trillion Ducats a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 118,800 Ducats, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Foreign policy is mostly just to smile and hope for the best, cars are banned, a typical peasant's life cycle leads from birth to the gallows, and burning yourself alive is not okay but starving and whipping yourself is fine. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ulm 219's national animal is the Bear, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Ulm 219 is ranked 191,885^th in the world and 144^th in Swabian autonomous region for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 67.28 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.