The Federation of Ulrikandria is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Mistress President Ulrike Dunway with an even hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, strictly enforced bedtime, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 26.929 billion Ulrikandrians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ulrikandria City. The average income tax rate is 82.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Ulrikandrian economy, worth a remarkable 2,213 trillion Ulriks a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 82,191 Ulriks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Cyclists spend more time unlocking their bicycles than they do cycling, hospitals have to sell their computers on vBay in order to afford the ransomware decryption payments, childhood friends of Mistress President Ulrike Dunway are living it large abroad at the taxpayers' expense, and the nation solves other countries' human rights problems with a generous dose of violence. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ulrikandria's national animal is the Ulrika bird, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Ulrikandria is ranked 42,526^th in the world and 2,390^th in Balder for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 4,487.31 on the Gilded Widget Scale.