  Systems with embedded magnetic ions that exhibit a competition between
magnetic order and disorder down to absolute zero can display unusual low
temperature behaviors of the resistivity, susceptibility, and specific heat.
Moreover, the dynamic response of such a system can display hyperscaling
behavior in which the relaxation back to equilibrium when an amount of energy E
is given to the system at temperature T only depends on the ratio E/T.
Ce(Fe$_{0.755}$Ru$_{0.245}$)$_2$Ge$_2$ is a system that displays these
behaviors. We show that these complex behaviors are rooted in a fragmentation
of the magnetic lattice upon cooling caused by a distribution of local Kondo
screening temperatures, and that the hyperscaling behavior can be attributed to
the flipping of the total magnetic moment of magnetic clusters that
spontaneously form and order upon cooling. We present our arguments based on
the review of two-decades worth of neutron scattering and transport data on
this system, augmented with new polarized neutron scattering experiments.
