The Republic of Mambo 28 is a massive, orderly nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, smutty television, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.304 billion Mambo 28ians 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 64.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Mambo 28ian economy, worth 100 trillion Izerns a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 76,908 Izerns, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Being able to unblock a u-bend pipe is considered a universally essential skill, the bonfire of the old paper records can be seen for miles around Mambo 28 City, girl scouts are forced to bake their own cookies, and a rolling news ticker tape of disclaimers runs across the bottom of the screen on all TV shows. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mambo 28's national animal is the Izern, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Mambo 28 is ranked 169,504^th in the world and 185^th in Izern for Most Secular, with 17.09 Atheism Rate.