The Republic of Mambo 238 is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, daily referendums, and state-planned economy. The quiet, industrious population of 741 million Mambo 238ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 65.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Mambo 238ian economy, worth 22.7 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, Uranium Mining, Automobile Manufacturing, and Information Technology. 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 30,645 izerns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Forty-year-old men are asked for their ID before watching the latest pony cartoon movies, schoolchildren are divided over Leader's "Why Tigers are Cooler than Lions" speech, Leader's perky ego is the talk of the town, and the sun rises an hour later on border communities. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mambo 238's national animal is the izern, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Mambo 238 is ranked 222,740^th in the world and 1,491^st in the Rejected Realms for Smartest Citizens, with 23.14 quips per hour.