The Republic of Ulm Protector is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its lack of airports, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed population of 1.105 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 69.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Ulm Protectorian economy, worth 53.7 trillion Ducats a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 48,628 Ducats, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Soldiers on first dates introduce themselves only by their ranks and serial numbers, park rangers perform full-body searches on suspected fungus smugglers, citizens live in superstitious fear of the mysterious glowing clouds that float over Ulm Protector, and foreigners write "made in Ulm Protector" on shoddy merchandise in hope of receiving a buy-out. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive 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 48,307^th in the world and 3^rd in Ulm for Safest, scoring 103.56 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.