The Dictatorship of The Kharkovan Cossacks is a colossal, orderly nation, notable for its public floggings, state-planned economy, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 3.023 billion Kharkovan Cossacksians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Healthcare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 56.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Kharkovan Cossacksian economy, worth 60.1 trillion Broken Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Cheese Exports, Beef-Based Agriculture, Basket Weaving, and Automobile Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 19,890 Broken Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Harry Potter books are banned, every day at 4am Kharkovan Cossacksians wake to pray for the sun to rise, trying to toast marshmallows in an electric fireplace just isn't the same, and it takes months to get the proper permits for a child's first tricycle. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Kharkovan Cossacks's national animal is the Iron Stallion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Kharkovan Cossacks is ranked 249,019^th in the world and 3^rd in General Storage for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 27.2 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.