This is the first in what I plan to be a series of dairies providing overviews of the nations of central asia. I hope to give everyone here some basic knowledge about this little-understood region, which, as along as America has troops in Afghanistan, will be of central importance.
Ah, who could forget Kazakhstan, land of the infamous Borat? Sacha Baron Cohen's antics turned his character's supposed home nation, formally unknown to most Americans, into a household name. In the process, it created an image of Kazakhstan that most Kazakhstanis would rather the world forget (and so disgusted the country's government that it threatened to sue.). So, as a service to this unjustly maligned country, I hearby present the real Kazakhstan.