California has smugly noted that if they were a country alone, they would be the 7th largest economy. I doubt that is true now.
Wikipedia says it is the 5th largest economy if it were a sovereign nation. Smaller than Germany, but larger than India.
Venezuela was a very prosperous advanced nation too when socialists/communists took over and turned it into another third world cesspool where the rich (the elites) live comfortsbly while the citizens starve and go without. Ca.ifornia is following suit