After reading that Western European nations are failing in the Butler Eagle I decided to check some facts. I went to the CIA's World Fact Book (on the Internet). There I started to add up the European countries' GDP. With ten countries added up I got over $12 trillion. I then looked up the United States GDP, it was over $14 trillion. But I noticed that the United States was only ranked second. So I wanted to know who was ahead of the United States so I checked the GDP of China, India, and Russia. Not them. I could not find the GDP that outranked the US, but going back to the US ranking I clicked on the number 2 and the list came up. Guess who is number one according to the CIA World Fact Book's latest...the European Union.