Borat is from there.

You can find much information on Kazakhstan on the internet,I just want to tell you about some particularities of the kazakh language in Kazakhstan ,in everyday speaking kazakhs use so many russian words(I think it's not an easy thing to speak pure Kazakh),that it can make ethnic kazakhs from far abroad and foreigners learning Kazakh confused,there are still a lot of native kazakhs not speaking their own language well.Although the kazakh language has the status of the «state» language,Russian is used routinely in business and office work

Oh... Saki, Scythians, Issyk-kul, Buhtarma, Aral sea. It's not fair, I'm russian and I learnd about Kasakhstan a lot.
BTW, Is that true that Chinese tried to "close" Ili river and Balkhash lake started to fall away? 

Horse-meat sausages and kumiss. Also, the first apples came fron the area. The city of Almaty is named after them.

An oil rich country...

Astana...