GOON

### Real Gooners

The Global Occult Of Nations (G.O.O.N) was a coalition of anomalous research and containment agencies from across the world. GOON was formed in 2093 with the goal of uniting various disparate nation-based groups into a unified coalition to protect and guard reality from the horrors that lay beyond. Officially, GOON was an organisation under auspices of the United Defence Council, with membership into the organisation being voluntary, on the condition that the nation joining had an established organisation dedicated to the supernatural.

### Functions

The founding charter of GOON stated that this organisation was dedicated to "The absolute protection of reality as perceived by members of the UDC, by all means and functions allotted to this coalition by its member states". To facilitate a broad membership, the founding charter made membership a voluntary endeavour, with members given the right to leave the organisation at their own leisure. The basic requirements to join the organisation were that: 1. The nation possesses established supernatural research and/or containment infrastructure. 2. Possesses supernatural research and/or containment organisation(s). 3. Have a willingness to share information gathered about the supernatural to GOON on the basis of being of public interest.

As an international organisation, its headquarters resides within Unity on the Shetland Islands. The primary institutions of this organisation were the following:

* **Executive Administration Branch**. This was the governing institution of the organisation, dealing with the leadership and broad policy goals of the organisation. The branch was headed by a council known as the Anomalous United Council (A.U.C), which was a council that discussed and voted on policy regarding the organisation. Each seat of the council was filled by a representative of each member organisation, with each allotted one vote on all issues. The leader of GOON, known as the Executive Director, would be a member of the council, voted in by the council to fulfill a 5-year term.
* **Anomalous Defence Branch**. This consisted of the military wing of the organisation, being directly responsible for the adequate containment of anomalous entities which member organisations deemed sufficient threatening to warrant a global response. The military wing would be headed by a Field Commander who would be elected by the AUC to serve a 5-year term, with the specific requirement that the Field Commander not hail from the same nation as the Executive Director, so to prevent monopolisation of power by a singular state. The branch would be staffed by soldiers assigned by the member states at their own volition, with their main garrison HQ being in Unity. The branch seeks to be a hyper reactive force, with the ability to respond to a serious anomalous threat within an hour of their assistance being requested.
* **Anomalous Study and Research Branch**. This was the dedicated research wing of the organisation. Specialising in the studying of all that seemed untrue to what reality was ought to be. This branch consisted of a myriad of scientific personnel assigned by the member organisations at their own discretion to conduct coordinated international study of major anomalous occurrences and entities contained. Importantly, the branch heavily relied on pre-existing information collected by member organisations over the preceding decades prior to GOON's establishment, with the disclosure of such information being a voluntary affair.
* **Anomalous Containment Branch**. This consisted of a joint civilian-military wing of the organisation dedicated to the long-term containment of anomalous entities discovered and subsequently quelled in whatever manner necessary. Due to the dangers of many anomalous entities, only a singular containment site was authorised to be constructed within the confines of Unity, with only low danger anomalies being permitted to be stored there. Therefore, GOON relies on member organisations to provide containment facilities for more dangerous anomalies that cannot be stored on Unity. This is also a voluntary measure, but the organisation tries to encourage such transfers of facilities with monetary incentives for the host nation.

### Member Organisations

* ACID (Kekstantinople Republic)
* Inquisitors of Truth (New Styrian Republic)
* SPOOK (Bongo Empire)
* VOID (The Ashtron Empire)
* Various other organisations.