The Republic of Mambo 97 is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its lack of airports, avant-garde cinema, and frequent executions. The compassionate population of 958 million Mambo 97ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 71.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Mambo 97ian economy, worth 61.7 trillion currencies a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 64,368 currencies, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Pet owners make sure their dogs wear diapers, blind students are at a disadvantage now that test papers printed in braille have been discontinued, evenings at university debating societies often end with everyone acknowledging both sides may well be right, and it's rare to find an unchewed pencil. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mambo 97's national animal is the animal, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Mambo 97 is ranked 323,606^th in the world and 878^th in Izern for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -12.81 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.