The Republic of Mambo 145 is a huge, cultured nation, notable for its public floggings, frequent executions, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 611 million Mambo 145ians 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 Defense. The average income tax rate is 34.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Mambo 145ian economy, worth 38.1 trillion izerns a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Retail, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 62,278 izerns, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

It's considered a civil right to be allowed to neglect and mistreat your own children, copies of the constitution are used as toilet paper, government police forces protect public schools from the threat of protest, and legislators toe the party line lest the Sergeant-at-Arms decide to conduct "truncheon practice" on the backbench. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mambo 145's national animal is the izern, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mambo 145 is ranked 252,977^th in the world and 699^th in Izern for Largest Black Market, with 167 billion Standard Monetary Units.