Michigan is:

• currently broke and worse than broke because the economy relied heavily on auto sales and the auto makers are . . . not lookin' so great
• the 8th most populous state in the US
• where I was born. Ann Arbor to be exact
• named after Lake Michigan. The word 'Michigan' is a French version of the Ojibwe term mishigama (large water or large lake).
  
• possessed of a university that thinks they are the greatest, and whom everybody else hates
• also possessed of a very nice arboretum within said university