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Rhode Island

Held by narragansettdev under the Technocrat flag, for $5.

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The place

One of the original 13 · ratified 1790 · Eastern time

Rhode Island is the smallest state and was founded by a man thrown out of Massachusetts for arguing about religious freedom, which set the tone. It has four hundred miles of coastline despite its size, a Gilded Age mansion row in Newport built by people competing to spend money, and a food culture nobody else has, coffee milk and clam cakes and hot wieners. Go for Newport in the shoulder season, and for Providence, which is small, walkable and has a serious art school in the middle of it.

The smallest state had the longest official name until it voted to shorten it in 2020.

Eat

Coffee milk and clam cakes

Drink

Narragansett Beer

Listen

Talking Heads

Bird

Rhode Island Red

Flower

Violet

Tree

Red maple

Grows

Nursery plants, Sweet corn, Apples

The actual state · 2025

Population
1,114,521
Land area
1,034 mi²
GDP per head
$75,329
Median household
$83,250
Joined
One of the original 13
Civil War
Union

Largest cities

  • 1Providence195K
  • 2Cranston84K
  • 3Warwick84K
  • 4Pawtucket77K
  • 5East Providence48K

Race

  • White79.3%
  • Black9.7%
  • Two or more4.6%

Hispanic or Latino19.7%

Counted across all races, so it overlaps the figures above.

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  1. Rhode Island goes Technocrat. narragansettdev paid $5 and nobody stopped them.

    “You run the smallest state like the biggest bureaucracy. Smallest state, biggest spreadsheet”

    · $5