“Shades of California’s future?”
Yep, and Illinois, and Michigan, and New York and New Jersey and then the USA. Observe your future, learn, prepare.
But unlike Kahlee-FOUR-nee-ah, these states aren't under the dreaded rule of an Austrian autocrat.
So maybe they can somehow avoid the Curse of the Ahnold!
(Even today, some 90 years after their countries gained independence via the Treaty of Versailles, people in the Balkans will tell you in the most forceful terms that Austrian rule was almost as bad as Turkish rule!)