The Republic of Mambo 103 is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, avant-garde cinema, and irreverence towards religion. The quiet, industrious population of 831 million Mambo 103ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 40.9%.

The Mambo 103ian economy, worth 50.1 trillion currencies a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Cheese Exports, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 60,331 currencies, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.2 times as much as the poorest.

New pilots are regularly reminded that they are more expendable than their planes, the contraband cigarette trade is lighting up across Mambo 103, broken suspension systems are giving auto repair shops plenty of business, and the mark of a good ruler is the largeness of his chin. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mambo 103's national animal is the animal, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Mambo 103 is ranked 112,319^th in the world and 524^th in Izern for Highest Poor Incomes, with 27,981.44 Standard Monetary Units.