The Republic of Mambo 71 is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, ban on automobiles, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 968 million Mambo 71ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 67.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Mambo 71ian economy, worth 67.3 trillion currencies a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 69,567 currencies, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Money that should have gone to charities is instead spent on monitoring them, some are born loving old plays and some have old plays thrust upon them, the nation's atlases tend to go out of date every few weeks, and the number of students attending university has reached a record high. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mambo 71's national animal is the animal, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mambo 71 is ranked 272,782^nd in the world and 650^th in Izern for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -7.21 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.