The Confederacy of Ulm 44 is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its parental licensing program, smutty television, and compulsory gun ownership. The cynical, humorless, devout population of 1.913 billion Ulm 44ians 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, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 76.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ulm 44ian economy, worth 238 trillion dollars 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, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, 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 124,616 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Top-shelf magazines feature risqué centrefold spreads of ladies' wrists, the Ulm 44ian government is the world's largest NGO, prisoners can't do number twos without their "toilet buddy" present, and a recent political debate came to a quick close once the ruling party decreed it was "just plain silly". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ulm 44's national animal is the dove, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Ulm 44 is ranked 201,919^th in the world and 279^th in Swabian autonomous region for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 42 on the Kitten Softness Rating.