The Republic of Ulm Protector is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, digital currency, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed population of 1.159 billion Ulm Protectorians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 66.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Ulm Protectorian economy, worth 63.4 trillion Ducats a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 54,687 Ducats, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The ban on cars has been repealed, town welcome signs list corporate sponsors, meat prices are soaring as the farming industry struggle under government-imposed restrictions, and thousands of picky mothers-in-law have been recruited to serve as even pickier cookery instructors. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ulm Protector's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ulm Protector is ranked 285,494^th in the world and 22^nd in Ulm for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 24.7 on the Bus Surprisal Index.