The Republic of Mambo 199 is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The quiet, industrious population of 648 million Mambo 199ians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 50.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Mambo 199ian economy, worth 23.8 trillion izerns a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Uranium Mining, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 36,657 izerns, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Childhood friends of Leader are living it large abroad at the taxpayers' expense, poaching has been on the rise after animals from the nation's zoos were released into the wild, wealthy parents-to-be can select their perfect baby, and discarded pennies litter the streets. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mambo 199's national animal is the izern, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mambo 199 is ranked 92,937^th in the world and 526^th in Izern for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 1,033.27 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.