The Confederacy of Hideaway is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by First Representative with a fair hand, and notable for its daily referendums, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 31.105 billion Hideawayans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, outspoken government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Havenburgh. The average income tax rate is 97.8%.

The enormous but inefficient Hideawayan economy, worth a remarkable 2,358 trillion Shrapnels a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Tourism industry. Average income is 75,829 Shrapnels, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Milk often tastes of pea, elections demand a proportionate response, nations that kill a Hideawayan can expect a strongly worded letter, and the government has spread itself thin. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hideaway's national animal is the Mullet, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Hideaway is ranked 330,530^th in the world and 9^th in Albion for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 1,668.24 Standard Monetary Units.