The Conquerable Kingdom of The Hill is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by King Chase with an iron fist, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, lack of airports, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 9.522 billion Hillanders 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 enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Throne on the balcony on the house. The average income tax rate is 65.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Hillish economy, worth 203 trillion Hilloes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, highly specialized black market in Tourism, Book Publishing, Cheese Exports, and Basket Weaving. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 21,342 Hilloes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Town nameplates frequently raise giggles from passing tourists, rice shortages have risen after paddy fields were drained to combat malaria, criminal rehabilitation takes place in re-education centers, and babies are a small but significant export. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. The Hill's national animal is the Sheep, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Hill is ranked 126,058^th in the world and 5^th in Wind of Spirits in Exile for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.