The Republic of Mambo 89 is a massive, orderly nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, disturbing lack of elderly people, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 1.143 billion Mambo 89ians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 58.1%.

The very strong Mambo 89ian economy, worth 86.0 trillion currencies a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 75,278 currencies, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

Edutainment video games are taking Mambo 89's students to the next level, soldiers with colourful mohawks make themselves perfect targets for snipers, shoving people into lockers qualifies you for a ministerial position, and a major religion has been named as Mambo 89's national religion. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mambo 89's national animal is the animal, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mambo 89 is ranked 247,605^th in the world and 563^rd in Izern for Least Corrupt Governments, with 90.79 percentage of bribes refused.