A closer look
Despite being just a single localized state composed heavily of chaotic traffic jams and incredibly overpriced avocados, California officially boasts a gross domestic product that is mathematically larger than the entire national economy of Great Britain. If the highly dramatic sunshine state were to suddenly secede from the country tomorrow, it would instantly become the fifth-largest independent global economy on the entire planet, easily crushing countries like India and France. This completely absurd financial reality is heavily driven by the massive entertainment monopolies of Hollywood and the deeply unregulated technological dystopia of Silicon Valley aggressively hoarding international wealth. It is profoundly hilarious that the global economic hierarchy is being fiercely dominated by a geographical region that literally catches on fire every single summer and frequently experiences devastating earthquakes
