The Republic of Mambo 272 is a huge, genial nation, notable for its avant-garde cinema, digital currency, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, hard-working population of 636 million Mambo 272ians 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 large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 44.6%.

The thriving Mambo 272ian economy, worth 40.6 trillion izerns a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 63,805 izerns, with the richest citizens earning 7.0 times as much as the poorest.

Any citizen who cries is immediately assigned a psychiatrist, tipsy fans frequently invite themselves to the board meetings of sports clubs, taxpayer money is hard at work exorcizing laundry, and 50% of adverts on children's television are for clothes made of cotton wool. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mambo 272's national animal is the izern, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Mambo 272 is ranked 80,014^th in the world and 558^th in Izern for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 3,540.77 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.