The Republic of Mambo 221 is a huge, safe nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, otherworldly petting zoo, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 649 million Mambo 221ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 39.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Mambo 221ian economy, worth 37.1 trillion izerns a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 57,121 izerns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

100-year-old politicians are now a thing of the past, pharmaceutical companies emphatically promise that "your pills are in the mail" rather than admit any supply shortfall, flatulent people are left to die of cancer at the end of hospital waiting lists, and male med students learning female anatomy do so with their eyes tightly closed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mambo 221's national animal is the izern, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Mambo 221 is ranked 141,600^th in the world and 650^th in Izern for Highest Average Incomes, with 57,121.14 Standard Monetary Units.