Location: 10000 Islands

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The Dictatorship of Goat Horns is a massive, economically powerful nation, ruled by The Goat with an iron fist, and notable for its parental licensing program. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 2.04 billion are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business individuals devotes most of its attentions to Law & Order, with areas such as Social Equality and Social Welfare receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Important. Income tax is unheard of. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Uranium Mining industry, followed by Retail and Gambling.

Midnight raids drag couples from their homes in the name of decency, all major public areas are watched by police surveillance cameras, cities are engulfed by smog, and Goat Horns's leader goes out to lunch surrounded by large men in dark glasses. Crime is crippling. Goat Horns's national animal is the velociraptor, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is goat worship, and its currency is the shiny thing.

Goat Horns is ranked 2,197th in 10000 Islands and 118,671st in the world for Most Pacifist, scoring -905 on the Lennon-Springsteen Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and