The Tavern Band of Mambo No 5 is a massive, orderly nation, remarkable for its absence of drug laws and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-working, cynical population of 4.51 billion Mambo No 5ians enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The relatively small, liberal, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.2%.

The strong Mambo No 5ian economy, worth 231 trillion dollars a year, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Basket Weaving, and Trout Farming. Average income is 51,230 dollars, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 289,961 per year while the poor average 4,434, a ratio of 65.4 to 1.

Crime is a serious problem. Mambo No 5's national animal is the eagle, which can occasionally be seen dodging aircraft in the nation's cities.

Mambo No 5 is ranked 201,584^th in the world and 1^st in Tensons Tavern for Most Advanced Public Transport, scoring 662.1 on the Societal Mobility Rating.