Nevada

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Nevada is an immoral, arid quadrilateral of land in the southwestern United States. It is essentially Las Vegas with a huge chunk of empty radioactive desert stuck on top. Nevada was used for above ground nuclear bomb tests because it is mostly uninhabited.

This patch of parchland is notorious for several reasons:

  • Gambling is legal.
  • Prostitution is legal.[1]
  • Las Vegas is the fastest growing city in the country, despite having no natural resources or fresh water has the highest foreclosure rate of any major city in the country.
  • Nobody who lives in Nevada is actually from Nevada. Seriously - walk into any bank or restaurant and the nametags all have the name and where they moved to Nevada from.
  • Areas that are heavily irradiated from Cold War-era atmospheric nuclear tests.
  • The annual Burning Man festival
  • An underground alien landing base

Nevada Territory was once a much smaller area than was eventually admitted to the union as the state of Nevada. During the American Civil War, it was deemed important to admit a new non-slavery state or two to the union, Nevada's silver deposits were needed to finance the war, and neighboring Utah Territory was rumored to be a hotbed of secessionist sentiment by Mormons who wanted to take advantage of the Civil War to secede from the union and start their own country, Deseret. A large chunk of western Utah Territory was added to then-Nevada Territory to form the new state. Nevada was admitted without having the required number of residents at the time to form a new state.

[edit] Nevadans of note

Icon fun.svg For those of you in the mood, RationalWiki has a fun article about Nevada.

[edit] Footnotes

  1. But only in counties with a population of less than 500,000 that vote to legalize it, and even then only in highly regulated brothels.
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