The Republic of Mambo 198 is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its disturbing lack of elderly people, frequent executions, and daily referendums. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 568 million Mambo 198ians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 37.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Mambo 198ian economy, worth 30.0 trillion izerns a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 52,748 izerns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Virtual assistants are seen with increasing suspicion every time they get an upgrade, corporate lobbying has been outlawed, prankster scientists legally change their names to silly pseudonyms before major discoveries, and Scoutmasters debate whether luxury log cabins defeat the purpose of camping. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mambo 198's national animal is the izern, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mambo 198 is ranked 269,686^th in the world and 702^nd in Izern for Largest Populations, with 568 million capita.