Greenland would place 43rd among US states, stuck between Kentucky and Maryland. Those Arctic shipping lanes sound great until you realize their entire population could fit inside the football stadium at one of our crappier D1 programs. They claim to be sitting on trillions in rare earth elements, yet somehow can't afford to build more than one actual highway. The interior is so hostile they just gave up and left it empty. You’re never going to build a top-tier state when basic transportation between towns requires military-grade vehicles.
Original Mexico would land at #37, just ahead of Oregon and New Mexico. Their entire economy runs on shipping day laborers and tequila to other countries, which sounds like a knock but is actually a more coherent business plan than half our current states. The country operates like someone took a normal nation and randomized all the settings. They have their own version of Coca-Cola that tastes better than ours, their ATMs occasionally dispense extra money, they treat traffic laws like suggestions that everyone agreed to ignore simultaneously. On the positive side, their national sport involves repeatedly stabbing a bull to piss it off. Overall, a mixed bag—low 30s feels about right.
PS - Ranking states is basically just astrology for people who own atlases. Everybody gets weirdly defensive about it while pretending they don't care.