The État Paige of Tungstan is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Paige with an even hand, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles, state-planned economy, and infamous sell-swords. The quiet, industrious population of 2.089 billion Paiges are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Gayborhood. The average income tax rate is 81.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Paige economy, worth 264 trillion rats a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 126,679 rats, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Paige is considering changing the Paige flag to one with more glitter, high school band practice is often crashed by technicolor-clad ravers, soldiers are equipped with multi-million rat battlesuits, and foreign despots proudly bandstand on Paige airwaves. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tungstan's national animal is the rat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Paige.

Tungstan is ranked 31,124^th in the world and 791^st in the Rejected Realms for Most Patriotic, with 37.7 flags saluted per person per day.