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I want a setting that does gnomes like garden gnomes...

An order of druids that stations themselves in public parks to bring nature to the city folk, wear conical hats, and stave off the bleaching with harmless pranks and creative landscaping. Sounds great for PC and NPC alike.

halflings are not boring, just wanted to point that out.

i personally love what pathfinder did with gnomes, before pathfinder (and to a lesser extent 4th edition) they always seemed to be either short dwarvish elves or odd skinnier dwarves, or they were obsessive compulsive inventors
what golarion has done is come up with a reason why gnomes are so odd and sometimes obsessive compulsive, the bleaching gives reason for their manic desire to experience new things.
i highly recommend reading the side bar in the first world article in sound of a thousand screams (ap 36) as it goes into greater understanding of the origins of gnomes and a possible cause for the bleaching (a kind of allergic reaction to having a soul (original denizens of the first world don't have souls).

in summary pathfinder gnomes are in fact scientifically better then any other gnome. their supposed fairy-ness only makes them better.
if you want a goth gnome go ahead, your character, not mine. i'll stick with the fairy gnomes thank you.

And the best part is, fairy and goth go great together! Just make them Unseelie themed, and the over-the-top darkness writes itself.