so you see, the joke was that wyoming has so few people that making up an arbitrarly low number and saying that the population is said number is funny.
Actually, you’re reading into it than I intended. I looked up the smallest state by population, and got Wyoming with 563767 people, which is the value used in the game. It’s probably a different population today, but it wasn’t arbitrary.
Edit: sorry, I see that you’re clarifying that your original message was a joke. Carry on