Michigan got it as sort of a "boobie" prize, as no one else wanted it. It's bug-infested in the summer (both months) and miserably cold and snowy in the winter, has no discernible economy, except state and federal governments, sustained by taxpayers in other areas with actual economic activity, and is still mostly populated by persons with peculiarly persistent Scandinavian accents, many of whom have taken up eating a Cornish dish, the meat and root-vegetable pie known as the "pasty". It is mostly overgrown with almost impenetrable second growth forests, where it is not too swampy for trees other than cedar and hemlock to thrive. It is largely unpopulated, has no cities, and only a handful of settlements rising to the level of "towns". These characteristics are among those found appealing by its residents and visitors...
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