Kazakhstanbrick

Kazakhstanbrick, officially the Republic of Kazakhstanbrick, is a countryball located mainly in Central Asiaball. It borders Russiaball in the north and west, Chinaball in the east, and Kyrgyzstanball, Uzbekistanball, and Turkmenistanball in the south. The capital is Nur-Sultanball, formerly known as Astanaball. Almatyball, Kazakhstanbrick's largest city, was the countryball's previous capital until 1997. Kazakhstanbrick is the world's largest landlocked countryball, the world's largest Muslim-majority countryball by land area (and the northernmost), and the ninth-largest countryball in the world. It has a population of 18.8 million, and one of the lowest population densities in the world, at fewer than 6 people per square kilometre (15 people per sq mi).

Kazakhstanbrick is the dominant nation of Central Asiaball economically and politically, generating 60% of the region's GDP, primarily through its oil and gas industry. It also has vast mineral resources. It is officially a democratic, secular, unitary, constitutional republic with a diverse cultural heritage. Kazakhstanbrick is a member of the United Nationsball (UN), WTO, CIS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the Eurasian Economic Union, CSTO, OSCE, OIC, OTS, and TURKSOY.

The territory of Kazakhstanbrick has historically been inhabited by nomadic groups and empires. In antiquity, the nomadic Scythians inhabited the land, and the Persian Achaemenid Empireball expanded towards the southern territory of the modern country. Turkic nomads, who trace their ancestry to many Turkic states such as the First and Second Turkic Khaganateballs, have inhabited the country starting from the 6th century. In the 13th century, the territory was subjugated by the Mongol Empireball under Genghis Khan. In the 15th century, the Kazakh Khanateball conquered much land that would later form territories of modern Kazakhstanbrick.

By the 16th century, the Kazakhs emerged as a distinct group, divided into three jüz. The Kazakhs raided the territory of Russiaball throughout the 18th century, causing the Russians to advance into the Kazakh steppes, and by the mid-19th century they nominally ruled all of Kazakhstanbrick as part of the Russian Empireball and liberated all the slaves Kazakhs had raided and captured in 1859. Following the 1917 Russian Revolution and subsequent civil war, the territory of Kazakhstanbrick was reorganised several times. In 1936, it was made the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republicball, part of the Soviet Unionball. Kazakhstanbrick was the last of the Soviet republics to declare independence during the dissolution of the Soviet Unionball in 1991. Human rights organisations have described the Kazakh government as authoritarian, and regularly describe Kazakhstanbrick's human rights situation as poor.