The Republic of Ulm Protector is a massive, safe nation, notable for its lack of airports, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 1.166 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 66.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Ulm Protectorian economy, worth 64.5 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. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 55,291 Ducats, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Orphans would rather live their life of luxury than be adopted by prospective parents, many of the unemployed have had the fight taken out of them, shady doctors seem to have impeccable records, and major corporations receive tax breaks for no apparent reason. 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 248,150^th in the world and 18^th in Ulm for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -3.69 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.