The Golden Horn

The Golden Horn is a region generally ignored by the major nations of the world. In fact, the UN fact-book often misplaces it when reckoning maps, relegating it to even further in the backwater than its humble peoples actually reside.

The region holds some ancient predecessors such as Powerhungry Chipmunks, Mitae, Grand Mitae, Hate E, Knaxabia and founder and long-time delegate Icae. During this are the region housed a small, isolated community of nations more interested in how the corn was doing this year than in treaties or alliances. That changed however, when Powerhungry Chipmunks became active in the UN, passing two proposals, The Nuclear Terrorism Act and Reformed Literacy Initiative, into full-fledged resolutions. Gradually more interest was shown on this spit-dirt collection of nations and demand for "proper" regional affairs increased.

During this troublesome growth of formal government, The Golden Horn Served as the center for the short lived GHIRA (Golden Horn Inter-Regional Alliance), an defence alliance of a few similarly forgotten regions. Attempts were made at creating a UN voting bloc with this alliance, but the modern will to interact with the outside world was defeated by aged stick-in-the-mud-ness, rendering GHIRA a frustrated figurehead. Not every nation was unchanged or set back by the loss of GHIRA. Powerhungry Chipmunks and Mitae founded relationships with extra-Golden Horn nations and regions, though they grew their enlightenment of the vast outside world gradually, with care not to disturb the populace of their respective nations, who were unsure on the nature of these "outsiders" they were now expected to do business, and interact with.

History is unclear on what happened to The Golden Horn after it became apparent that GHIRA and the spirit of exploration of the outside world would be rendered lifeless and unimportant in the hands of the peoples of The Golden Horn. Some historians theorize that a few of the national governemnts in The Golden Horn became so disheartened with the failure of The Golden Horn to reach beyond its corn rows they dissolved themselves, leaving the land and tribes to be annexed by Powerhungry Chipmunks and Mitae. Other historians disagree, believing the other inhabitants of The Golden Horn simply ceased to exist, as a result of drought or plague or even armed conflict.

Even less clear is how only Powerhungry Chipmunks survives as a governing entity today. Mitae, a robust and thriving nation, was anxious to trade with neighbors, and seems, for all intensive purposes, to have been on the path towards economic dominance among the nations in The Golden Horn, and The Golden Horn's neighbors. Records collected from various ethnicities assumed to be under Mitaean control form a rough outline: at some point a coup occured, apparently in protest to expansion and in support of tariffs with other nations; The ensuing civil war eventually led to plea from the ethnic Icaeans in Mitae for their Powerhungry Chipmunks brothers to sieze power; Powerhungry Chipmunks, then a communist state, sent in soldiers and became embroiled in the struggle, eventually creating a pupprt government; Years later, Mitae long dislaced from its national identity, the puppet government was merged with the Powerhungry Chipmunks national government.