The Meddling Matriarchy of Hindered is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by The Great Mother with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and prohibition of alcohol. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 26.439 billion Hindereders 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Madre Grande. The average income tax rate is 76.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Hinderederian economy, worth a remarkable 1,650 trillion motherlodes a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Woodchip Exports industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 62,437 motherlodes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens are frequently searched for illegal weapons, money that should have gone to charities is instead spent on monitoring them, commercial breaks often lead to nervous breakdowns, and black market eau de toilette is made in bathroom labs across the nation. 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 264,493^rd in the world and 9^th in Freshness for Lowest Overall Tax Burden, scoring -38.05 on the Hayek Index.