Kazakhstan
“
Kazakhstan, greatest country in the world. All other countries are run by little girls!
— 
Fake Kazakh Anthem
Kazakhstan is a big country in 
Central Asia. He is depicted as a brick because his flag is too wide to fit into a ball. Kazakhstan is bordered by 
Russia to the north, 
Uzbekistan, 
Kyrgyzstan, and 
Turkmenistan to the South, 
China to the east, and the 
Caspian Sea to the west.
Kazakhstan sometımes lets Russia and other former 
Soviet state members use his clay for launching rockets into space (or ınto anybody the launcher wants removed). Russia also has taken a Kazakh astronaut ınto space, Aidyn Aimbetov.
Тарих (History)[edit | edit source]
Nazarbayev Era (1991-2019)[edit | edit source]
On 25 October 1990, Kazakhstan declared his sovereignty on his territory as a 
republic within the Soviet Union. Following the August 1991 aborted coup attempt in 
Moscow, Kazakhstan declared independence on 16 December 1991, thus becoming the last Soviet republic to declare independence. Ten days later, the Soviet Union itself ceased to exist.
Kazakhstan's 
communist-era leader, 
Nursultan Nazarbayev, became the country's first president. Nazarbayev ruled in an 
authoritarian manner. An emphasis was placed on converting the country's economy to a market economy while political reforms lagged behind economic advances. By 2006, Kazakhstan was generating 60 percent of the GDP of Central Asia, primarily through its oil industry.
Although a reform package that included a reduction in the length of the 
presidential term and an expansion of 
parliamentary power was passed in 2007, a 
constitutional amendment was passed alongside it that rendered Nazarbayev personally exempt from the standard two-term limit on the presidency. In 2010 the 
Kazakh parliament approved plans for a referendum for 2011 that would cancel the next two rounds of presidential elections, effectively extending Nazarbayev’s term until at least 2020. However, the planned referendum was rejected by Kazakhstan’s constitutional court in January 2011. Nazarbayev accepted the court’s ruling and called for early presidential elections. In April 2011, running against token opposition, Nazarbayev was elected to another term as president, winning more than 95 percent of the vote. A subsequent report by 
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) observers stated that restrictions on political activity in Kazakhstan and the absence of a viable opposition candidate for president had left voters without a meaningful choice in the election.
A rare challenge to the authority of the government occurred in May 2011 when oil workers in the town of 
Zhanaozen went on strike over pay and working conditions, occupying the town square. The strike continued until police opened fire during a riot on December 16, killing 17 people and injuring dozens more. The incident led to a wider crackdown on dissent that saw a number of opposition activists jailed.
The next presidential election was held in April 2015, wherein Nazarbayev won nearly 98 percent of the vote. In September of that year, he appointed his daughter, 
Dariga Nazarbayeva, as deputy prime minister. A year later, in September 2016, he appointed her to the Senate, increasing speculation that she was being groomed to take over the presidency.
Other events indicated that Nazarbayev was preparing the stage for a smooth transition of power as his tenure drew to an end. In 2017 he advanced a set of constitutional amendments that would give more power to the parliament and the cabinet. In February 2019 he sacked the cabinet and appointed a new prime minister to carry out a program to improve living standards. Many observers believed that the move was meant to lay the groundwork for an upcoming election campaign. But Nazarbayev resigned from the presidency on March 19, saying that he wanted to facilitate the rise of a new generation to lead the nation. He retained several key policy-making positions but gradually relinquished them in the years that followed.
Tokayev Era (2019–Present)[edit | edit source]
Observing constitutional protocol, the incumbent Senate speaker, 
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, was to serve as acting president for the remainder of the term, and a presidential election was due to be held in early 2020 but was later moved up to June 2019. In that vote Tokayev was elected to the presidency in a sweeping victory.
Tokayev initially supported the lofty stature of Nazarbayev and his family. On March 20, 2019, his first day in office, he changed the name of the capital city from 
Astana to Nur-Sultan in honour of Nazarbayev (a change reverted in September 2022). He also promoted Nazarbayev’s daughter Dariga to the post of Senate speaker, making her first in the line of succession upon the vacancy of the presidency, though she was removed from the post in May 2020 following allegations abroad that she had been involved in an embezzlement scheme.
Early in his presidency, Tokayev attempted reforms that were intended to liberalize Kazakhstan by easing restrictions on protests and political opposition. Detentions of protesters continued, however, and the 2021 parliamentary elections, boycotted by the opposition for remaining too restrictive, were Kazakhstan’s first elections to be uncontested by opposition parties.
At the start of 2022 the government ended price caps on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) as part of an ongoing plan to liberalize the energy market and end fuel shortages. However, the move backfired, as the price of LPG doubled. Protests broke out in Zhanaozen on January 2 and quickly spread across the country; in 
Almaty, demonstrators stormed and set fire to government buildings. Although the price caps were reinstated and the prime minister resigned, the protesters demanded broader changes, citing the lack of 
democratic representation in the government’s decision-making processes as the underlying cause of their grievance. On January 6 forces from the 
Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) were deployed in Kazakhstan to respond to the unrest, marking the first time that the Russian-led military alliance had been called upon to intervene in a member state.
With the protests quickly quelled, CSTO forces began withdrawing the following week, and Tokayev embarked on an effort to reform the political system and establish a clean break with Nazarbayev. In June voters approved more than 30 constitutional amendments in a landslide referendum. The amendments, which Tokayev described as merely the “first step” in reform, removed certain aspects of presidential oversight and created obstacles to nepotism in the executive branch. In September, seeking to shore up support for further reform, he called for early presidential and legislative elections. With little time for the opposition to mobilize and compete in presidential elections set for November, Tokayev won a seven-year term with more than 80 percent of the vote. In similar fashion (and for a similar purpose), in January 2023 Tokayev called for snap parliamentary elections to be held in March. The results indicated that the ruling party had lost support since the previous general election but still won a majority of the vote.
Этимология (Etymology)[edit | edit source]
The name of "Kazakh" is from the ancient 
Turkish word "qaz", which means "to wander". That goes back to the nomadic culture of the Kazakhs. The suffix from the 
Persian language “-stan” translates to "land" or "place of". Combining the word "Kazakh" and the suffix -stan, this translates to "Place of Wanderers". So Kazakhstan literally means "The place of the wanderers.
Қатынас (Relationship)[edit | edit source]
Достар (Friends)[edit | edit source]
Ресей - My step-brother. He tests nukes and stuff on my clay, is also founder of 
CSTO. But pls gib some nukes.
АҚШ - We both have embassies in each other’s capitals, and I trust you more than Russia (don’t tell him that though).
Моңғолия - Nomad horse enjoyer
Тривива (Trivia)[edit | edit source]
- Not counting
Transnistria, Kazakhstan was the last one to leave the 
USSR.
Қалай сурет салу керек (How to draw)[edit | edit source]
- Draw a brick shaped block 🧱
- Fill it in with light blue
- Draw a sun in the middle
- Draw a bird with only yellow outline under the sun
- Draw a fancy stripe of yellow pattern on the left
- Add eyes and you finished!
| Color Name | HEX | |
|---|---|---|
| Light blue | #00AFCA | |
| Yellow | #FEC50C | |
