The Republic of Mambo 166 is a huge, cultured nation, notable for its closed borders, ritual sacrifices, and ubiquitous missile silos. The quiet, industrious population of 698 million Mambo 166ians 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 medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 27.5%.

The strong Mambo 166ian economy, worth 44.6 trillion izerns a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 63,963 izerns, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

Snowball fights inaugurate summer breaks, public footpaths are being slowly eroded by the burgeoning number of ramblers, Mambo 166 is increasingly belligerent on the international stage, and it is popularly believed that "cheese every day keeps disaster away". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mambo 166's national animal is the izern.

Mambo 166 is ranked 288,436^th in the world and 836^th in Izern for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -6.25 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.