The Federal Empire of Ulnar is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Emperor-President with a fair hand, and remarkable for its pith helmet sales, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.717 billion Ulnarians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Erebus. The average income tax rate is 93.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ulnarian economy, worth 547 trillion qians a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 201,617 qians, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Running away is an essential part of the elite forces' hand-to-hand training, schools have extensive counseling programs for troubled students, finders keepers is the law of the land, and worrywarts have started advocating for a paint ban. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Ulnar's national animal is the penguin, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is God-Machine Cult.

Ulnar is ranked 4,424^th in the world and 1^st in Albero for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 592.62 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.