The Jingoistic States of Ulm 42 is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, ritual sacrifices, and disturbing lack of elderly people. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 1.812 billion Ulm 42ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 66.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ulm 42ian economy, worth 230 trillion pesos 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 large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, Information Technology, and Tourism. 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 127,212 pesos, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Ulm 42 City University is said to be the modern-day Tower of Babel, government-sponsored WiFi allows farmers to rant about city folks in real time, citizens receive notices of disenfranchisement along with their parking tickets, and tourists buying prepaid smartphones are arrested for smuggling. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ulm 42's national animal is the sheep, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ulm 42 is ranked 38,198^th in the world and 114^th in Swabian autonomous region for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 2,331.78 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.