The PPP adjustment is going to inflate the values in low cost of living states/nations; cost of living correlates pretty well with average income (i.e. don’t travel to Switzerland unless you like spending money), which means all those eastern European countries and southern states with lower average incomes are going to get a leg up on central/western Europe.
We’re approaching BadEconomics territory
We shouldn’t think of science as a better replacement for religion. It’s a different thing entirely; if we start worshipping rationalism, we’ve just made ourselves the gods of a new religion.