The Republic of Mambo 156 is a huge, orderly nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, zero percent divorce rate, and state-planned economy. The cynical population of 646 million Mambo 156ians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized government prioritizes Law & Order, with Defense, Education, and Welfare also on the agenda, while Environment is ignored. The average income tax rate is 33.8%.

The sizeable but inefficient Mambo 156ian economy, worth 25.7 trillion izerns a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 39,826 izerns, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.4 times as much as the poorest.

The nation's streets have become a winter wonderland of salt and sand, citizens may cast their vote over the internet or phone, orphans would rather live their life of luxury than be adopted by prospective parents, and a blood-red mark on the doorframe means a building must be passed over for destruction. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mambo 156's national animal is the izern, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Mambo 156 is ranked 95,922^nd in the world and 537^th in Izern for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 44.83 on the Kitten Softness Rating.