The Republic of Mambo 298 is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its prohibition of alcohol, ban on automobiles, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 523 million Mambo 298ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 38.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Mambo 298ian economy, worth 23.3 trillion izerns a year, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Pizza Delivery. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 44,542 izerns, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Leader has no checks and balances after the upper house was abolished, people's charity begins and ends at home, raccoons are plump and satiated, and the government regrets to say that it is forced to make cuts to citizens. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mambo 298's national animal is the izern, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mambo 298 is ranked 270,005^th in the world and 802^nd in Izern for Largest Populations, with 523 million capita.