Kansas

You're playing a kind of hide-and-seek picture game inside of a serious movie that you produced. The movie is supposed to be about your cold case investigation of a murder in Greenwich, Connecticut. You are more interested in seeing how many games you can work into the screenplay. The more challenging and outlandish, the better. The most challenging could be a subtext rendition of The Wizard of Oz from start to finish. For that you need the state of Kansas.

Kansas has the only state motto that references the field of stars on the American flag; Per aspera ad astra. The motto is shorthand for the territory's bloody struggle to join the Union as a free state. It means, "Through hardship to the stars." On January, 29 1861, "Bleeding Kansas" became the 34^th star on the American flag. You can also say Kansas with flowers, with a sunflower, the official state flower of Kansas, or a stargazer lily to symbolize the state motto.