A well-designed map is a thing of beauty. In Saturday's Globe and Mail there was a map of the United States of America but instead of being annotated with state names, each state is assigned a country that has an equivalent GDP. I wish the image was available online:

State of the Union..Nation
Washington..........Turkey
Oregon..............Israel
Nevada..............Ireland
California..........France
Idaho...............Ukraine
Utah................Peru
Arizona.............Thailand
Montana.............Tunisia
Wyoming.............Uzbekistan
Colorado............Finland
New Mexico..........Hungary
North Dakota........Ecuador
South Dakota........Croatia
Nebraska............Czech Republic
Kansas..............Malaysia
Oklahoma............Philippines
Minnesota...........Norway
Iowa................Venezuela
Missouri............Poland
Arkansas............Pakistan
Louisiana...........Indonesia
Wisconsin...........South Africa
Illinois............Mexico
Mississippi.........Chile
Michigan............Argentina
Indiana.............Denmark
Kentucky............Portugal
Tennessee...........Saudi Arabia
Alabama.............Iran
Ohio................Australia
West Virginia.......Algeria
Virginia............Austria
North Carolina......Sweden
South Carolina......Singapore
Georgia.............Switzerland
Florida.............Republic of Korea
Pennslyvania........Netherlands
New York............Brazil
Vermont.............Dominican Republic
New Hampshire.......Bangladesh
Maine...............Morocco
Massachusetts.......Belgium
Rhode Island........Vietnam
Conneticut..........Greece
New Jersey..........Russia
Delaware............Romania
Maryland............Hong Kong
D.C.................New Zealand
Alaska..............Belarus
Hawaii..............Nigeria
Texas..............Canada

And to top the article off, the caption of the map read
Why the 'bastards' matter