The Swabian Autonomous Zone of Ulm 3 is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, enslaved workforce, and public floggings. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.14 billion Ulm 3ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Chernokopsk. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 75.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Ulm 3ian economy, worth 276 trillion Ducats a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 129,009 Ducats, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 502,762 per year while the poor average 22,607, a ratio of 22.2 to 1.

People are careful to avoid hyperbolising that they'd "rather die" than support Leader, the Violetist community celebrates bombshells being dropped on Ulm 3, rural communities are all but disenfranchised as politicians focus all their attention on winning the deciding urban votes, and immigrant Maxtopians are routinely sold on popular internet auction sites. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ulm 3's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ulm 3 is ranked 33,837^th in the world and 89^th in Swabian autonomous region for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 2,498.3 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.