In 2014, Steve Ballmer created an early version of USAFacts, a website that set out to answer his own questions about the way American government works — and doesn’t work. Eight years on, USAFacts is a nonprofit group that now produces an annual report on the state of the country, stuffed with slickly produced figures and charts on trends in living standards, firearm-related deaths, inflation’s effect on wage growth, states that are weathering the pandemic the best and much, much more.