The Republic of Mambo 290 is a huge, genial nation, notable for its ritual sacrifices, frequent executions, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate population of 596 million Mambo 290ians 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 Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 47.1%.

The Mambo 290ian economy, worth 28.5 trillion izerns a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 47,863 izerns, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

Muscular women are banned from competing in sporting competitions, sneezing pedestrians are grabbed by alley-lurking doctors, the government officially wants you to slow down and speak more clearly, and most believe it doesn't hurt to embrace free trade. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mambo 290's national animal is the izern, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mambo 290 is ranked 265,247^th in the world and 775^th in Izern for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 25,319.91 Standard Monetary Units.