The Republic of Mambo 255 is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 534 million Mambo 255ians 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 medium-sized, moralistic government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Education, Law & Order, and Administration also on the agenda. The average income tax rate is 29.5%.

The sizeable but inefficient Mambo 255ian economy, worth 25.3 trillion izerns a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 47,459 izerns, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.1 times as much as the poorest.

The mark of a good ruler is the largeness of his chin, glittering new sports stadiums adorn every city and town, it ain't easy to be green enough to be imported into Mambo 255, and political clichés like "band-aid solutions" and "adrenaline shots to the economy" are headed for the dumpster. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mambo 255's national animal is the izern, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Mambo 255 is ranked 86,357^th in the world and 129^th in Izern for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 2,702.03 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.