The Republic of Mambo 136 is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 698 million Mambo 136ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 43.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Mambo 136ian economy, worth 34.4 trillion izerns a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Basket Weaving, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 49,329 izerns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Kids are arrested at gunpoint for playing with toy rifles, CSI Forest is this year's hit new crime show, a rolling news ticker tape of disclaimers runs across the bottom of the screen on all TV shows, and school uniforms are compulsory. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mambo 136's national animal is the izern, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mambo 136 is ranked 82,005^th in the world and 457^th in Izern for Lowest Crime Rates, with 70.81 law-abiding acts per hour.