For 10 points, name this country, the largest landlocked nation in the world, whose capital was moved to Astana in 1997 after having long been in this country's largest city Almaty.
Lake Balkash lies within this nation and its capital lies on the Ishim River. The former Semipalatinsk nuclear test site and the towns of Semey and Kurchatov are located in this nation, whose borders contain the mouths of both the Syr Darya and the Ural Rivers. Nikita Khrushchev's Virgin Lands program opened up large amounts of unsettled land in this nation to settlement. This nation also contains the northern half of the Aral Sea and borders the eastern part of the Caspian Sea near its border with Turkmenistan. For 10 points, name this country, the largest landlocked nation in the world, whose capital was moved to Astana in 1997 after having long been in this country's largest city Almaty.
Lake Balkash lies within this nation and its capital lies on the Ishim River.
{Kazakhstan}