The Republic of Mambo 26 is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, avowedly heterosexual populace, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 1.113 billion Mambo 26ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Public Transport. The average income tax rate is 47.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Mambo 26ian economy, worth 78.1 trillion Izerns a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 70,188 Izerns, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Homeless people are periodically found dead upon altars to assorted deities, blue bloods are welcome in Mambo 26, even God cannot save you in Mambo 26, and programmes of questionable content are shown at peak-hours. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mambo 26's national animal is the Izern, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mambo 26 is ranked 318,700^th in the world and 857^th in Izern for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -11.4 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.