The Celestial Imperial State of The Kharkivan Cossacks is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Emperor Ivanov Zelenskyy with an iron fist, and renowned for its teetotalling pirates, ubiquitous missile silos, and vat-grown people. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 5.719 billion Cossacks are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

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 Administrive Disctrict of Kharkiv. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 82.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Kharkivan economy, worth a remarkable 2,282 trillion Kharkivan 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 399,110 Kharkivan Dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 3,588,780 per year while the poor average 5,559, a ratio of 645 to 1.

Firebombing politicians' offices has become a common way of expressing dissatisfaction, rioting and unrest sweep the nation, cities are engulfed by smog, and it's hard to speak ill of the dead when you don't speak of them at all. 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 Khalatikovism.

The Kharkivan Cossacks is ranked 305,600^th in the world and 46^th in Imperial World Nations for Nicest Citizens, with 0.13 average smiles per day.