I searched for this - because, not very surprisingly, this didn't really make the news in the UK - and found the following: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/

I searched for this - because, not very surprisingly, this didn't really make the news in the UK - and found the following: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/08/26/if-the-uk-was-a-u-s-state-it-would-be-the-second-poorest-behind-alabama-and-before-mississippi/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/08/26/if... It's actually quite an interesting thought exercise to contrive as many reasons as you can why the information presented there is pretty much meaningless.