Leggy heiresses pose in front of their jet black Rolls Royces, while young men dressed head-to-toe in expensive designer gear, lounge in utter luxury.
The region may not always associated with luxury but bestselling book The Silk Roads tells of mind-boggling wealth from Central Asia.
It includes an anecdote about the four-year-old nephew of a powerful oligarch whose financial adviser bought a £4.8million mansion in the tot's name.
Many of the privileged boys and girls featured on the Rich Kazakh Kids Instagram page look too young to drive, let alone afford the brash orange Lamborghinis and Ferraris they are standing next to.
Dimash Adilet, 20, is a regular fixture on the page, though it's unclear how he made his fortune.
The handsome Kazakh with more than 700,000 followers describes himself as a "role model" with a membership to genius club Mensa.
Whether he's pensively gazing over a white sand beach or posing next to a brand new six-figure Audi, many of his carefully choreographed images come with words of wisdom.
One of him sitting on a Porsche reads: "Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude."
Still – while they only dine in the best restaurants and holiday in the coolest destinations – how they can afford such incredible lifestyles is largely a mystery.
Most of their accounts are private and they rarely go into what their families do to fund their globe-trotting, designer existences.
But there have been young Central Asians who have openly flaunted their status and wealth on the world stage.
They included glamorous billionaire Gulnara Karimova, the fashion designer daughter of late Uzbek dictator Islam Karamov, who disappeared from public view in 2014.
She was often pictured next to A-listers including Jude Law and her designs featured at New York Fashion week until they ditched her over human rights abuses.
Gulnara, always dressed in couture dresses and glimmering jewellery, also released a single and was known to have sung a duet with Latin heartthrob Julio Iglesias.
Meanwhile, the son of former Kyrgyzstan president, is reported to live in a £3.5million mansion in Surrey while 31 per cent of his compatriots live below the poverty line.
He was forced to flee the country in April 2010 after his father Kurmanbek Bakiyev was toppled following bloody nationwide riots.
Maxim was so hated that protesters burned down his restaurant and luxury home in Bishkek the day after he left to seek asylum in the UK.
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