The Swabian Autonomous Zone of Ulm 22 is a massive, orderly nation, renowned for its enslaved workforce, parental licensing program, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.056 billion Ulm 22ians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Samavo. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 82.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Ulm 22ian economy, worth 269 trillion Ducats 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, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 130,911 Ducats, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 378,588 per year while the poor average 35,894, a ratio of 10.5 to 1.

Lawyers spend as much time preparing their make-up as they do their briefs, street crime is on the rise as police officers spend most of their time in prisons, the government considers it a sacred duty to video bikini-clad beach swimmers, and the letters L, G, and B must never be grouped together. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ulm 22's national animal is the Bear, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Ulm 22 is ranked 36,205^th in the world and 82^nd in Swabian autonomous region for Highest Average Incomes, with 130,911.86 Standard Monetary Units.