Federalism for the win! We really don’t need the federal government if we aren’t acting as world police.

Check out how individual states rank against countries:

https://pgcgroup.com/blog/us-states-gdp-compared-to-countries

Our once great melting pot would get pretty lumpy as the cheese starts to cool down and coagulate, though.

We will have a squid games-like show featuring two teams, each of red and blue state governors soon enough.