The Republic of Mambo 142 is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its avant-garde cinema, zero percent divorce rate, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate population of 514 million Mambo 142ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 31.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Mambo 142ian economy, worth 24.1 trillion izerns a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Basket Weaving, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 46,833 izerns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It's believed that women's brains will overheat if they think for themselves, saying that someone looks a bit pale can be construed as hate speech, soldiers stream their classified military operations live for millions of fans, and programmers often reinvent the wheel. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mambo 142's national animal is the izern, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mambo 142 is ranked 90,380^th in the world and 403^rd in Izern for Highest Poor Incomes, with 33,733.79 Standard Monetary Units.