The Republic of Mambo 273 is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its public floggings, zero percent divorce rate, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 649 million Mambo 273ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 57.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Mambo 273ian economy, worth 18.4 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 quite specialized, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 28,360 izerns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A good deed is rewarded with a thank you note attached to a deportation order, hostage-takers offer loyalty scheme points for prompt payment, the men in trenchcoats hanging around playgrounds are actually police officers, and euthanasia is legal. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mambo 273's national animal is the izern, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mambo 273 is ranked 114,334^th in the world and 777^th in Izern for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 2,208.4 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.