The Republic of Ulm 240 is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, frequent executions, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, devout population of 1.573 billion Ulm 240ians 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 Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 60.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Ulm 240ian economy, worth 223 trillion Ducats a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 142,343 Ducats, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 625,127 per year while the poor average 20,379, a ratio of 30.7 to 1.

Aging citizens are celebrating the end of the 'Early Bird War', farmers have taken to hunting billionaires who encroach on their land, it isn't a secret plot without caviar and foie gras, and the sun rises an hour later on border communities. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ulm 240's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ulm 240 is ranked 33,605^th in the world and 96^th in Swabian autonomous region for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 50.74 on the Kitten Softness Rating.