As part of the rollout of a new geolocation system, a new option has been added to the
settings page that lets you override the country used to determine which part of the H@H network to load images from.
Obviously, this allows you to correct the country if it is wrong, but it also allows for certain advanced behavior, like if you are browsing the site itself through a VPN or proxy in a different country, but still want to make use of H@H clients in your own country/region.
There aren't any particular limitations on the use of this feature, but you generally want to avoid selecting the wrong country unless you have a good reason for it, like if you're having issues with government censorship or connectivity in general.