The Republic of Mambo 180 is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, state-planned economy, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed population of 538 million Mambo 180ians 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 large, moralistic government prioritizes Defense, with Education, Administration, and Law & Order also on the agenda. The average income tax rate is 46.9%.

The Mambo 180ian economy, worth 26.8 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, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Soda Sales, and Uranium Mining. 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 49,775 izerns, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.7 times as much as the poorest.

Claiming to have performed the Heimlich Maneuver is a popular defense for assault charges, every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead, the government is hounded to provide tissues whenever the feelings of the Dàguó people are hurt, and comatose jurors are the defense's favorite. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mambo 180's national animal is the izern, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Mambo 180 is ranked 190,253^rd in the world and 414^th in Izern for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -1.61 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.