The Republic of Mambo 171 is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, zero percent divorce rate, and otherworldly petting zoo. The quiet, industrious population of 580 million Mambo 171ians 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 Defense, Law & Order, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 30.6%.

The strong Mambo 171ian economy, worth 33.6 trillion izerns a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 57,964 izerns, with the richest citizens earning 7.2 times as much as the poorest.

Clerics are taught that silence is golden and duct tape is silver, dubiously qualified Skandilundian barristers keep referring to laws as 'government guidelines', the examiners who examine examiners are being examined by examiners, and kids refer to anything below the neck as "the parts that shall not be named". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mambo 171's national animal is the izern, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Mambo 171 is ranked 112,964^th in the world and 582^nd in Izern for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 10,549.12 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.