Goat

Goats are important to Alanland. They are not the official animal of the country, that being the common teal.

In Alanland, one apologizes for the existence of goats. Goats apologize for the existence of Alanland. Alanland apologizes for apologizing, except in the cases involving goats, in which case it does not apologize at all.

Goats respond positively to quoting long posts. A common adage is "The longer the quote, the happier the goat".

All goat shortages were eliminated, and goat sacrifices increased threefold (more or less, depending on your source), through the breeding of the hydragoat in 1977. Interestingly enough, the actual number of goats sacrificed statyed fairly constant, even taking a slight dip in April–May 1978. Some remain unconvinced that the introduction of the hydragoat had any positive effect on the goat population there, however, this is unquestionably the minority opinion.