The Republic of Ulm Charles is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, hard-working population of 880 million Ulm Charlesians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 41.2%.

The strong Ulm Charlesian economy, worth 60.3 trillion Ducats a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Retail. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 68,522 Ducats, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 217,259 per year while the poor average 16,477, a ratio of 13.2 to 1.

It is mandatory to learn evolution in schools, displaying impatience in any form lands you a spot on the UCIA watchlist, on graduation day the hats thrown in the air fly high enough to stun passing pigeons, and the government is hounded to provide tissues whenever the feelings of the Dàguó people are hurt. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ulm Charles's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ulm Charles is ranked 96,275^th in the world and 12^th in Ulm for Safest, scoring 84.77 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.