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CA does very poorly by that measure. Both of these states have large rural populations (which bring down the median income), as well as large urban centers (which bring up the cost of living).

Your definitions of cartels & force are different to mine :)

Legitimate opiate producers compete in the same market with illegitimate ones. The force they use is police, dea, etc., instead of guns directly, but the techniques are the same.

After all, a state is what happens when organized crime expands its time horizons.

Nothing tinfoil hat about it. Drug dealers & cartels are well-known for using force to maintain monopolies.

The pdf is about representing graphs with geometry, not representing geometry with graphs.