The Golden Horn

The Golden Age

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's ancient predecessors, Powerhungry Chipmunks, Mitae, Grand Mitae, Hate E, Knaxabia and founder and long-time delegate Icae were made up of culturally similar peoples. Many refer to this period of stability and uneventfulness as "the golden age" for The Golden Horn. During this age the region housed a small, isolated community of nations more interested in corn production than treaties or alliances. All evidence suggests that The Golden Horn viewed itself as the ideal regional society: free from outside interference and constraint. Nations with "too much busy" were viewed with suspicion.

Changes came upon the Golden Horn 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. Within each nation it seemed a vocal number of citizens called for more involvement and awareness of the outside world. 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 failure of GHIRA, though. Powerhungry Chipmunks and Mitae did create subtantive relationships with extra-Golden Horn nations and regions, though careful to grew the enlightenment of the vast outside world gradually. If either nation would have appeared to rush into these agreements and relations 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, would have most likely revolted.

Deterioration

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. The lack of official records from the time support the possibility of there having been some form of 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: 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.

Powerhungry Chipmunks, presumed to be made up of the peoples of the ancient Goden Horn nations, left the region in search of other tight-knit communities. Soon thereafter, The Golden Horn, a mere footnote on most maps, ceased to exist. The world failed to notice.

Revitalization

Recently though, revitalization of The Golden Horn has occured. Belgrade-Beograd has reformed the region attempting to re-incorporate the regions nations again. Still present are the challenges of isolationistic, apathetic, and home-driven political attitudes among the people (it is believed by many that the Belgrade-Beograd, along with other current denizens, is a rebirth of Knaxabia's ethnic heritage, though time has masked the most distintive characteristics of the peoples today). Unclear also, is whether Powerhungry Chipmunks will return, to serve as an anchor of internationalism in the region.

Belgrade-Beograd recognizing the mantle of The Golden Horn's representative to the outside world will remain unworn without the return Powerhungry Chipmunks, has stepped onto the international stage with the submission of Discrimination Accord to the UN. Only time will tell if this attempt at introducing The Golden Horn with its interregional neighbors will fail as the last. The Golden Horn's future, it seems, is hanging in limbo.