The Free Land of Ulterus is a huge, genial nation, notable for its smutty television, pith helmet sales, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 490 million Ulterusians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ultaira. The average income tax rate is 32.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Ulterusian economy, worth 43.7 trillion Ults a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 89,123 Ults, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Mystics are claiming that a simultaneous rise in scepticism and education budgets is correlation rather than causation, imitation is the sincerest form of felony, every workday begins with group therapy, and the government is engaging in an agricultural trade war with Maxtopia. Crime is totally unknown. Ulterus's national animal is the Pangolin, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ulterus is ranked 113,593^rd in the world and 1,534^th in the West Pacific for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 2,856.52 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.