Checking the whole list, regions in East Germany are at a similar level as the poorest regions of Southern Spain, Belgium, the UK, continental France, and the poorest region in Austria (Burgenland at the Hungarian border, 19,400 PPS) and West Germany (the fourth of Lower Saxony around Lüneburg, 19,900 PPS); but above the poorest in Southern Italy, Portugal or Greece. Western Poland is still below even the poorest Italian, Portuguese or Greek regions, but not the French Outre-Mer region of Guyane (11,600 PPS).

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}