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The population is very largely urban, very largely minority of one kind or another. The public service employee unions are very powerful, between teachers, local government and state employees. It is more and more government of the public employee unions, by the public employee unions and for the public employee unions.

The socialist supermajority in both houses of the legislature means they can do whatever they want, not that Moonbean II ever opposes much of anything.

There are "normal" areas, but those folks are hideously outnumbered by the kooks in the urban areas, who have such a stranglehold they don't even need to cheat.