The Republic of Mambo 259 is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its zero percent divorce rate, soft-spoken computers, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed population of 536 million Mambo 259ians 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 relatively small, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 19.7%.

The Mambo 259ian economy, worth 30.1 trillion izerns a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 56,131 izerns, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Tech-mad citizens think that the laser-powered bread-slicer uPhone App is the coolest thing since sliced bread, rural communities are all but disenfranchised as politicians focus all their attention on winning the deciding urban votes, many politicians are serving jail time for minor drug offenses, and baby dolls thrown in the trash are a leading cause of panic attacks. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mambo 259's national animal is the izern, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Mambo 259 is ranked 251,515^th in the world and 586^th in Izern for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -6.03 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.