The Gambling of The Kharkivan Cossack is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Eyes with an iron fist, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, ubiquitous missile silos, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 3.801 billion Kharkivan Cossackians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The tiny, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Eye. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.2%.

The powerhouse Kharkivan Cossackian economy, worth 314 trillion Kharkivan Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is notable. Average income is 82,800 Kharkivan Dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 277,662 per year while the poor average 18,331, a ratio of 15.1 to 1.

One tree's worth of paperwork accompanies each imported log of timber, illicit spice trade makes desert merchants wrangling worms blush, the streets are increasingly clogged with poverty-stricken beggars, and the nation is loathed abroad for dumping all of its waste in international waters. Crime is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. The Kharkivan Cossack's national animal is the Black Stallion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Eyeism.

The Kharkivan Cossack is ranked 126,009^th in the world and 3^rd in The Land of the Cossack Hosts for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 1,366.1 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.