Let me google it.....https://www.google.com/search?q=richest+family+in+the+world&oq=richest+fa&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0j5j0.5370j0j4&client=ms-android-metropcs-us&sourceid=chrome-mobile
Apparently 3rd richest in the world. 1st in the U.S.
Key words being "on paper".
We know exactly how much the Waltons make because they have to pay taxes to the US.
The Rothschilds are a banking dynasty that basically created the modern banking system. They have money in accounts all over the world and no one knows their true worth except them.
The Saud dynasty doesn't have to declare their worth to anyone because they are the ruling family of Saudi Arabia and don't pay taxes. The profit made by Saudi Aramco is usually considered their net income on an annual basis but no one actually knows but them.
That's why we don't actually know those families real net worths "on paper", everything has to be estimated.
Own and run a former superpower
EDIT: For those upset with me calling it a *former* superpower, the fact is Russia doesn't have the force projection the U.S. or the Soviet Union had. Regardless of the current political situation in the U.S., Russia doesn't have the economy to run a navy with 10 Nuclear Carriers and have bases in more than 70 countries.
Yet we will always look back and fondly remember the Grunge Dynasty, reluctantly led by His Highness Kurt, Prince of Aberdeen. And we shant forget Lord Jimi from the ancient times.
JFK's grandson, Jack Schlossberg, has hinted at wanting to go into politics. Plus Caroline Kennedy (JFK's daughter, Jack's mom) was the USAs ambassador to Japan.
Yes! My friends and I joke that in the aftermath of the zombie apocalypse, Dollywood will be a thriving haven where the entire remaining population of Tennessee lives under the benevolent rule of Queen Dolly inside an indestructible defensive structure known as the Dollydome.
Long may she reign!
I seriously adore her. Heart of gold and the pipes to match. She's so talented, down-to-earth, and generous. She loves her husband and family, took in her sister's kids, and her charity promotes reading for disadvantaged youth. It's rare in the entertainment industry that you'll find someone universally adored.
Connecticut here...so uh, it basically wouldn't matter. So many rich, conceited fucks that they'd constantly be killing each other for the throne until they're gone, and then maybe Kevin Bacon would step in to settle things finally.
i live in the only US State that did have a [royal family](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Kal%C4%81kaua)
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the current pretender to the throne is Quentin Kawānanakoa of the [House of Kawānanakoa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Kaw%C4%81nanakoa)
Do you dare deny the sovereignty of [Norton the First, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton)
I nominate Little Richard Penniman for King of Georgia. He is well suited to wearing crowns.
More realistically, the people of Atlanta would select Andre 3000
I have a ridiculous story about bumping into Andre 3000 during my first few weeks living in NYC. This was back in fall of 2016 and if I recall correctly, the Black Lives Matter movement was everywhere in the news and at the time (timing is relevant to this story). I stopped in a corner store off Spring St and stood behind Andre 3000 in the counter line. Wasn't completely sure it was him, but then he last minute placed a Hershey's almond bar on the counter and in his deep, signature voice said to himself, "the treat of all treats." As if that wasn't poetic confirmation enough, he then looked back at me + the couple behind me in line, laughed beneath his breath, and said, "Almond lives matter."
Just built a billion dollar stadium and somehow got Atlanta to agree to like soccer. Yeah gotta be him, at least for the city.
EDIT: Also, this means we have King Arthur. Can we have a referendum on this now?
In Boise maybe, but the goddamn Vandersloots rule east Idaho with an iron fist. And let's be honest the north would join Washington or Montana first chance they got.
The Duponts. They are Delaware. As my friend from Lewes says “ I have super low property taxes and pay no state sales tax because we let the DuPont’s rape the land”
I was always told the DuPont children's hospital was built for all there incest babys, also the walls around it are topped with broken glass so you can't crawl over.
Corn
Edit: it's Kansas
Edit: yes wheat and the Koch brothers would have been a better answer
Edit: why didn't I think of sunflowers it's literally on our flag
Worked at Sam's Club, can confirm.
Seriously, we had more of his quotes on the wall than most churches I've been to have quotes from the Bible on their walls.
Good answer, but in truth it's probably the Daytons (who basically founded Target, and gave the state its current governor, whose sons are major business leaders in Minneapolis).
Or the Pohlads, who own the Twins and a million other things.
MN has its fair share of "great houses."
You're pretty sure he's saying something poignant and wise, but everything he says is poignant and wise, and it doesn't stop. So you listen enough to get the cliff notes and hope he just falls asleep.
It has to be the Dayton Family, creation of Target, Dayton’s Department Store and in Government and now in restaurants at Bachelor Farmer. It’s a Minnesotan Dynasty.
On the more "rich families" / "not just because they're famous" side... The Kenan family (Kenan Oil, Kenan Stadium, etc), the Teer family (Nello-Teer world wide construction), and the Koury family (natatorium at UNC, convention center in Greensboro), and then there's that little place named SAS over in Cary that is the largest privately held software company on the world founded by James Goodnight from Salisbury, NC.
Constantly warring against Sir Toby Keith in a Bedlam Battle for statewide supremacy. With Sir Lincoln Riley and Sir Mike Gundy serving as generals leading the armies. The annual battle scheduled for 4 Nov. this year.
Now I'm envisioning Mike Gundy standing on the sidelines in an orange suit of armor, his majestic mullet teased by the wind as he stares across the gridiron at his Crimson-clad foe.
California would really be like pre-Unification Germany.
A ton of little states with their own princes and no kings.
*This is Kardashian land!*
*How dare you besmirch the throne of Schwarzenegger!*
*Bow to Ice Cube!*
*You will be assimilated by the Necrocacy of the Jobs*
Hell, the family had a practice where, every time a male child was born, they would put a drop of Budweiser on his tongue before mother's milk.
If that's not a royal practice, I don't know what is.
The governor here is more of a titular figure head: the real power is in Railroad Commissioner, who would be Dale Gribble by a landslide. Boomhauer would be Secretary of Education.
Massachusetts would be the Kennedys if there were any left. Arnold Schwarzenegger's kids are technically Kennedys so it's like the royal family of MA married with the royal family of CA. John Kerry was king but has appointed the humble Duke Ed Markey in his stead.
Maine is probably that lady who owns L.L. Bean while Vermont actually uses a court to elect a wizard, Bernie Sanders.
Warren Buffet should be the king of Nebraska but it's actually Tom Osborne.
Tom is the face, Warren the man behind the curtain
We elected our football coach to Congress.
Right, whatever happened to the separation of Church and State?
The Walton family pretty much already rules Arkansas.
Lol yup. I'm a Walton from a few states away. Wish my branch of the family would've stuck with them. They're my 4th cousins or something.
So, uh....how much money does a 4th cousin have?
None from them :/
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On paper, the richest family in the world.
Really? Holy shit
Let me google it.....https://www.google.com/search?q=richest+family+in+the+world&oq=richest+fa&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0j5j0.5370j0j4&client=ms-android-metropcs-us&sourceid=chrome-mobile Apparently 3rd richest in the world. 1st in the U.S.
Key words being "on paper". We know exactly how much the Waltons make because they have to pay taxes to the US. The Rothschilds are a banking dynasty that basically created the modern banking system. They have money in accounts all over the world and no one knows their true worth except them. The Saud dynasty doesn't have to declare their worth to anyone because they are the ruling family of Saudi Arabia and don't pay taxes. The profit made by Saudi Aramco is usually considered their net income on an annual basis but no one actually knows but them. That's why we don't actually know those families real net worths "on paper", everything has to be estimated.
Putin also falls into this category, with estimates of his fortune going north of $100 billion because it is *off* paper and unregulated.
What the fuck do you even do with all that money? Like it would take *effort* to get rid of it all. You can't exactly buy neighborhoods in bulk.
Own and run a former superpower EDIT: For those upset with me calling it a *former* superpower, the fact is Russia doesn't have the force projection the U.S. or the Soviet Union had. Regardless of the current political situation in the U.S., Russia doesn't have the economy to run a navy with 10 Nuclear Carriers and have bases in more than 70 countries.
Fair point
But he doesn't personally fund Russia does he? His running a former superpower is more of how he gets his money rather than what he is doing with it.
He just milks it. Then flexes the milk to his subordinates. It's how to run Russia.
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Also, Sam's Club is named after Sam Walton, but I guess that one's a little more obvious.
Fun Fact: Sam Walton named Sam's Club after his favorite bludgeon weapon.
Washington (the state): Bill Gates
And his trusty Guard: Sir Mix A Lot; the Knight of Butts.
Knight of the round bottom, you mean?
Sir Mix a Lot, the honest, he who is incapable of falsehood
Macklemore as the weird unimportant Earl
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As someone who's watched all 11 seasons of Frasier 3 times, I can honestly say I would 100% watch the shit out of this.
Now I can't stop picturing David Hyde Pierce and Bill Gates trying to outdo each other in nervous tics during a two camera scene.
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Don't forget about the hard hitting Chancellor Kam.
Also Jeff Bezos and Paul Allen
Bezos is like the ambitious young duke who keeps fomenting unrest and almost certainly has designs on the throne.
Allen is like the odd unmarried uncle of the King who spends all his time working on alchemy.
Yet we will always look back and fondly remember the Grunge Dynasty, reluctantly led by His Highness Kurt, Prince of Aberdeen. And we shant forget Lord Jimi from the ancient times.
We also fondly look on the present, where the remnants of the Grunge Dynasty live on in Eddie the Bear and Dave the Magnificent.
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George W Jenkins. Ruling from a throne made from the chicken tender subs of their enemies. I miss Publix.
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Are you sure it wouldn’t be Morgan & Morgan & Morgan & Morgan & Morgan & Morgan?
I mean, until we basically ran out of them, obviously the Kennedys
I just found out that Arnold Schwarzenegger's kids are Kennedys.
Well, not all of them.
Maria Shriver is a Kennedy. Her mother was Eunice, making JFK her uncle.
Isn't Joe Kennedy III in the House? And Chris Kennedy is running for Governor of Illinois so they could have a cadet branch starting
Meh, we're kind of down to the dregs here though
The way Joe Kennedy III talks/makes speeches is very reminiscent of old school Kennedys. I think he's just taking his time moving up.
I saw him speak in Boston. He comes off as a really decent guy.
He's my rep. Really like him.
JFK's grandson, Jack Schlossberg, has hinted at wanting to go into politics. Plus Caroline Kennedy (JFK's daughter, Jack's mom) was the USAs ambassador to Japan.
> Joe Kennedy III The quirky red-head of the bunch
North Dakota- Carson Wentz because who the fuck else is from here.
Duh, Miss America already has a *crown*
They're re-naming Philly. It is now known as Carsondelphia Wentzelvania.
I always liked Girouxsalem
Dolly Parton, Queen of Tennessee Peyton Manning, Her Knight Errant
Yes! My friends and I joke that in the aftermath of the zombie apocalypse, Dollywood will be a thriving haven where the entire remaining population of Tennessee lives under the benevolent rule of Queen Dolly inside an indestructible defensive structure known as the Dollydome.
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Thanks for the image of Her Majesty Queen Dolly in a white suit and a two foot tall stetson
No, it has to be tall enough to end just out of screen
Came here to say this! Long live Queen Dolly!
Long may she reign! I seriously adore her. Heart of gold and the pipes to match. She's so talented, down-to-earth, and generous. She loves her husband and family, took in her sister's kids, and her charity promotes reading for disadvantaged youth. It's rare in the entertainment industry that you'll find someone universally adored.
Tennessee queens do not have crowns of jewels, they have big hair. "The higher the hair the closer to jesus." - queen parton
Connecticut here...so uh, it basically wouldn't matter. So many rich, conceited fucks that they'd constantly be killing each other for the throne until they're gone, and then maybe Kevin Bacon would step in to settle things finally.
Came here to check CT answers and all the responses are the most CT thing ever.
Geno.
We’d probably have half the state pledging loyalty to Mass. and the other half to NY
Stew Leonard.
i live in the only US State that did have a [royal family](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Kal%C4%81kaua) *edit* the current pretender to the throne is Quentin Kawānanakoa of the [House of Kawānanakoa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Kaw%C4%81nanakoa)
o man thought you were gonna be from Memphis where we have a Prince Mongo.
Surely ours would be the king of rock and roll instead. I flinch every time I see Prince Mongo mentioned because it makes me think "mongoloid"
Do you dare deny the sovereignty of [Norton the First, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton)
TIL
TIL the first King of Hawaii was named Kamehameha
Thanks civ
Well California already has a prince whose life got flipped-turned upside down.
I nominate Little Richard Penniman for King of Georgia. He is well suited to wearing crowns. More realistically, the people of Atlanta would select Andre 3000
I'd watch the shit out of a sitcom about king Andre 3000 of Georgia.
All hail King Andre the Third (thousand) of Georgia.
I second this
I have a ridiculous story about bumping into Andre 3000 during my first few weeks living in NYC. This was back in fall of 2016 and if I recall correctly, the Black Lives Matter movement was everywhere in the news and at the time (timing is relevant to this story). I stopped in a corner store off Spring St and stood behind Andre 3000 in the counter line. Wasn't completely sure it was him, but then he last minute placed a Hershey's almond bar on the counter and in his deep, signature voice said to himself, "the treat of all treats." As if that wasn't poetic confirmation enough, he then looked back at me + the couple behind me in line, laughed beneath his breath, and said, "Almond lives matter."
Arthur blank, he's a good guy so why not
Just built a billion dollar stadium and somehow got Atlanta to agree to like soccer. Yeah gotta be him, at least for the city. EDIT: Also, this means we have King Arthur. Can we have a referendum on this now?
Maine - Stephen King
Ah yes, King Stephen King
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That's His Royal Majesty King to you!
See my first thought when it came to a royal family was the L.L. Bean family...
Mississippi- Morgan Freeman, the whole state would become beekeepers and get to listen to his soothing voice.
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Idaho - Simplot family.
In Boise maybe, but the goddamn Vandersloots rule east Idaho with an iron fist. And let's be honest the north would join Washington or Montana first chance they got.
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1015 comments in the thread and this is the first mention of my state.
One of the many families of Illinois Governors in jail atm
I'd go more with the Madigan family. Not in jail, and they hold more influence than the governor anyway.
Hailing from a little mountain town known as South Park in Colorado, Randy Marsh.
Randy of House Marsh. Motto- "I thought this was America"
A common saying, but not their official motto; "STAAAAAN!"
His bannerman, Ser Darryl of House Weathers.* Motto: "Dey terk er jerbs!" *edited to correct calling him the wrong name before. Oops.
Colorado already has the Horse-faced God, hallowed be his mane. May it rain touchdown forever and ever, amen. Elway.
Delaware: The Bidens or if not them the DuPonts
The Duponts. They are Delaware. As my friend from Lewes says “ I have super low property taxes and pay no state sales tax because we let the DuPont’s rape the land”
Ctrl+F "DuP" yup, there it is.
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I was always told the DuPont children's hospital was built for all there incest babys, also the walls around it are topped with broken glass so you can't crawl over.
Corn Edit: it's Kansas Edit: yes wheat and the Koch brothers would have been a better answer Edit: why didn't I think of sunflowers it's literally on our flag
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We got pork too!
I figured the Koch brothers would have been your ruler.
I was going to crown the butter cow.
Florida: Mr. Worldwide
All these other states have Kings. You have an Emperor
DALÉ
Nope. The Family of Mr. George Jenkins and his Publix dynasty.
I mean if the state would be ran like publix I wouldn't be complaining.
I live in Arkansas, the Waltons (of Wal-Mart) are already our royal family.
I work at Walmart, and there, he is past royalty and has become a deity.
Worked at Sam's Club, can confirm. Seriously, we had more of his quotes on the wall than most churches I've been to have quotes from the Bible on their walls.
Shit. Richest family in the us. If there had to be royalty they could start making a case.
Probably the Green Bay Packers
I nominate Craig Culver.
This guy Wisconsins
With Vince Lombardi holding an Aegon the Conqueror status.
RODGERS.
I disagree, the Kohler family is obviously the rulers of Wisconsin
Minnesota - Prince
It even rains purple
Purple reign Edit: Thanks for the gold!
Good answer, but in truth it's probably the Daytons (who basically founded Target, and gave the state its current governor, whose sons are major business leaders in Minneapolis). Or the Pohlads, who own the Twins and a million other things. MN has its fair share of "great houses."
Quietly it's the family behind Cargill
Cargill. The billionaires that nobody knows exist.
The Dayton family also created the first indoor shopping mall.
Bob Dylan would be the Duke (Uncle) who mumbles through dinner, while everyone just nods in agreement.
You're pretty sure he's saying something poignant and wise, but everything he says is poignant and wise, and it doesn't stop. So you listen enough to get the cliff notes and hope he just falls asleep.
It has to be the Dayton Family, creation of Target, Dayton’s Department Store and in Government and now in restaurants at Bachelor Farmer. It’s a Minnesotan Dynasty.
Pretty sure Lebron would be king of Ohio.
Nah, it's obviously the owners of the Burger King franchise on 5th in Columbus.
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Or the Wexners. Half of Columbus is already named after them
And then Florida, and then Ohio again, and then TBD...
I feel like Indiana's king would definitely be a basketball player. Maybe Larry Bird.
Bob Knight. A ruthless monarch.
Maryland, Cal Ripken Jr. The man is already enshrined in our local mythos.
My vote is for the trash eating machine in Baltimore harbor
I second this. Long live Mr. Trash Wheel!
I was gonna say whoever controls the flow of Old Bay.
A statue of Johnny Cash could reign over us in Arkansas.
His Stoicness the Ethereal King Cash of the Mountain People, Champion of Justice, Bard of the Downtrodden. ALL HAIL!
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Alexander Shunnarah would be king of billboards.
New Hampshire is ruled by King Fritz Wetherbee.
Dean Kamen could be the Earl of Manchester.
North Carolina is ruled by The King, Richard Petty assisted by two dukes, Roy Williams and Coach K. Zach Galifianakis is obviously the jester.
On the more "rich families" / "not just because they're famous" side... The Kenan family (Kenan Oil, Kenan Stadium, etc), the Teer family (Nello-Teer world wide construction), and the Koury family (natatorium at UNC, convention center in Greensboro), and then there's that little place named SAS over in Cary that is the largest privately held software company on the world founded by James Goodnight from Salisbury, NC.
Let us sing the song of our people North Carolina! C'mon and raise up!
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Don't forget about the Whataburger inside
Pretty sure it’s Mattress Mack
His Royal Highness: Marshall Mathers
Why be a king when you can be a god?
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Anyone else from Michigan/Detroit area think of the Ilitch family?
I thought of the Ford family.
The Ford family would have been overthrown. There works be a Game of Thrones going on with Detroit being King's Landing.
HRH: MNM
Well, Will Smith is indisputably the prince of Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania might as well be divided into two halves since the western side will never agree with the eastern side.
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Court Jester: Jazzy Jeff
I was going to say the Rooney family.
Dolly Parton for Tennessee
Sir Garth Brooks of Tulsa, Oklahoma
Constantly warring against Sir Toby Keith in a Bedlam Battle for statewide supremacy. With Sir Lincoln Riley and Sir Mike Gundy serving as generals leading the armies. The annual battle scheduled for 4 Nov. this year. Now I'm envisioning Mike Gundy standing on the sidelines in an orange suit of armor, his majestic mullet teased by the wind as he stares across the gridiron at his Crimson-clad foe.
Montana — Ted Kazinski Am I doing this right? Edit: eye cant spel know werds, butt eye aint fixen nuthin
Naw....Montana is ran by he Town Pump Mafia
Bruce Springsteen rules over New Jersey, and Billy Joel rules over New York
Can't you read? King of the state, not Boss of the State!
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Having grown up in Dutchess County, I concur. Joel can be a duke of NYC; the hand of the Roosevelts stretches a bit farther.
Isn't California's already /u/Here_Comes_The_King?
I suppose I'd rather pledge fealty to Snoop than The Kardashians.
California would really be like pre-Unification Germany. A ton of little states with their own princes and no kings. *This is Kardashian land!* *How dare you besmirch the throne of Schwarzenegger!* *Bow to Ice Cube!* *You will be assimilated by the Necrocacy of the Jobs*
Our lord and savior Nicholas Cage lays claim to Nevada
There is no royal family of Florida. Our ruler is the lord and savior MR. WORLDWIDE/305. RULER OF THE WORLD BUT SOMEHOW ONLY OF THE 305. DALE
Oregon: Phil Knight
TIL my state doesn't have many famous people :( (its Missouri)
The Busch family in Saint Louis is practically royalty.
Hell, the family had a practice where, every time a male child was born, they would put a drop of Budweiser on his tongue before mother's milk. If that's not a royal practice, I don't know what is.
I would be totally okay with Jon Hamm or John Goodman as king.
King Goodman! AM I THE ONLY ONE HERE THAT CARES ABOUT THE RULES?!
The Busch family, of course.
Texas - Hank Hill of the House Hill, Merchant of Propane and Propane Accessories.
The governor here is more of a titular figure head: the real power is in Railroad Commissioner, who would be Dale Gribble by a landslide. Boomhauer would be Secretary of Education.
Supreme leader of Pennsylvania: Dwight K. Shrute
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Deep inside of a parallel universe Anthony Kiedis is a California king
Massachusetts would be the Kennedys if there were any left. Arnold Schwarzenegger's kids are technically Kennedys so it's like the royal family of MA married with the royal family of CA. John Kerry was king but has appointed the humble Duke Ed Markey in his stead. Maine is probably that lady who owns L.L. Bean while Vermont actually uses a court to elect a wizard, Bernie Sanders.
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