Ah, apologies. This will be a goal post shift, from the question I asked. What I meant was specifically one that does better at the things California is good at.

Think of it as me asking if a tennis player is training well. You want to compare to other tennis players, not cyclists.

You may be able to get some cross learning, of course. But I'm specifically questioning if California's successes are in spite of government. Not if their failures are because of it. These are two questions and it is not clear to me that they would have the same answer.