The Commonwealth of Ulto is a titanic, efficient nation, renowned for its lack of airports, vat-grown people, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 20.867 billion Ultoans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt government prioritizes Administration, with Industry, Education, and Law & Order also on the agenda, while Welfare and Spirituality aren't funded at all. The average income tax rate is 75.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ultoan economy, worth a remarkable 5,264 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched black market in Retail, Gambling, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. 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 amazing 252,294 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Unruly families are deliberately marooned on desert islands, the nation's universities are often mistaken for foreign embassies, owning a fishing rod can cause you to be subject to military questioning, and most governmental positions are filled by zealous nationalists. Crime is pervasive, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Ulto's national animal is the porpoise, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Ulto is ranked 322,108^th in the world and 6^th in Unknown for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring -10.95 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.