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Kazakhstan: Not really much to say. They were on the periphery of the Chinese sphere of influence and went through a civil war in the early 2030s as one of the last major proxy wars in the Second Cold War. The American proxy of Samarkand took some land during the war, but otherwise it was not noteworthy. It's economy has rebounded since the civil war, and is now expected to be a top 20 economy by 2045. The central Asian northern desert has been almost completely eradicated as part of the international plan to recreate the Aral sea, and thus are not really affected by desertification brought on by climate change. Some say they even benefit from it.