The WARPED EMPIRE of The Kharkivan Cossacks is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Limitless Emperion Yakiv Ostanniy with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, public floggings, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 6.14 billion Cossacks are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Enshrouded Exostate of Kharkiv. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 82.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Kharkivan economy, worth a remarkable 2,468 trillion Kharkivan Digital Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Retail. Average income is an amazing 402,009 Kharkivan Digital Dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,830,996 per year while the poor average 19,333, a ratio of 146 to 1.

Medical lawsuits are out of control, apprentice builders get teased for wearing hard hats, wandering Cossacks are known for their one-track minds, and strange looking men with big red noses are found hiding behind bushes and inside dustbins. Crime is pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. The Kharkivan Cossacks's national animal is the Black Stallion, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Ad Khalatikovism.

The Kharkivan Cossacks is ranked 3,458^th in the world and 4^th in Imperial World Nations for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 662.65 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.