I’ve never really understood this argument. The American states are not homogenous either, and Finland would be a mid-size state (its population is somewhere be

I’ve never really understood this argument. The American states are not homogenous either, and Finland would be a mid-size state (its population is somewhere between South Carolina and Minnesota). Not everything that works in Minnesota would work in another state. Not everything that works in Finland would work in Minnesota. But surely neither is a categorical impossibility.