The Republic of Mambo 260 is a huge, safe nation, notable for its frequent executions, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 535 million Mambo 260ians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 31.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Mambo 260ian economy, worth 10.1 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 Uranium Mining, Trout Farming, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. 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 18,832 izerns, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's youth would rather watch paint dry than the news, road signs are getting harder to read under layers of knitted woolen cardigans, spoiler warnings are now given out before political speeches, and wrongful arrests abound as 'criminals' blame the guy next to them. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mambo 260's national animal is the izern, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mambo 260 is ranked 245,924^th in the world and 551^st in Izern for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -5.57 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.