The Meddling Matriarchy of Hindered is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by The Great Mother with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, fear of technology, and frequent executions. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 21.609 billion Hindereders are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Madre Grande. The average income tax rate is 75.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Hinderederian economy, worth a remarkable 1,250 trillion motherlodes a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Woodchip Exports industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 57,860 motherlodes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Prospective parents are cheering on the streets as they no longer need a license to have children, factories are regularly demolished to make way for low-cost housing areas, athletes are renowned for being the best at maths, and the nation grinds to a halt for afternoon tea. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hindered's national animal is the panda, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Goddess-worship.

Hindered is ranked 40,114^th in the world and 3^rd in Freshness for Lowest Crime Rates, with 77.64 law-abiding acts per hour.