The Republic of Ulmclear is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, avant-garde cinema, and digital currency. The hard-nosed population of 876 million Ulmclearians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 40.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Ulmclearian economy, worth 67.3 trillion Ducats 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 slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, Cheese 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 76,786 Ducats, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Shoppers have literally had their hands full since plastic bags were banned, political candidates who don't release their birth certificates are presumed to have been born in Maxtopia, members of the government all have oddly similar anecdotes about their childhoods, and the nation is relieved that all of the recent madness has finally come to an end. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ulmclear's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ulmclear is ranked 290,915^th in the world and 22^nd in Ulm for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring -9.54 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.