The Republic of Mambo 159 is a huge, genial nation, notable for its zero percent divorce rate, frequent executions, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 606 million Mambo 159ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Social Policy. The average income tax rate is 39.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Mambo 159ian economy, worth 25.2 trillion izerns a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Cheese Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 41,562 izerns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Comedians who make offensive jokes have their ticket proceeds seized, citizens with artificial limbs are forbidden to serve as beauty pageant judges, the government insists that a ghost voted ten million times in the last election, and the contraband cigarette trade is lighting up across Mambo 159. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mambo 159's national animal is the izern, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Mambo 159 is ranked 123,003^rd in the world and 89^th in Izern for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring 1,424.87 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.