It is wholly dependent on the federal government and tourism. I thought colonies were supposed to be exploited by the colonial power, and not the other way around. And, unlike Washington, the latter have an existence apart from government. Washington is a company town. A high proportion of residents rely on government, federal or local, for their incomes.
Municipal government comes super-sized.
In 1997, L.A. had 134 city employees per 100,000 population. Washington had more than five times that number. In 1982, the city's voters approved a proposed state constitution for New Columbia by better than a 60 percent margin. The document guaranteed a job or income to every resident, provided for a right to abortion through the ninth month and banned discrimination based on sexual orientation. It proved such an embarrassment to statehood proponents that it was replaced in 1987 by a constitution bearing less of a resemblance to the platform of the Socialist Workers Party.