Happy Nation

Jonas "Joker" Berggren and Ulf "Buddha" Ekberg wrote "Happy Nation" as a direct response to reports about Ekberg's past associations with neo-Nazi skinheads. The band called it an anti-fascist song and a hymn to life. Ekberg later explained that it was also aimed at everybody talking about how bad everything is, arguing that the best thing is to see the positive. The track, recorded for Ace of Base's 1992 debut album of the same name, mixes English lyrics with Latin, the opening verse drawing on Psalm 117 with an intended meaning of praising all people and nations throughout the ages.

Mega Records first released the single in Scandinavia in December 1992. It went to number one in Denmark, Finland, France and Israel, where it held the top spot for three weeks from 2 March 1993. In the group's native Sweden it reached number four and spent eight weeks on the Sverigetopplistan. The UK saw two releases, the first in October 1993 peaking at number 42, with a re-entry twelve months later at number 40. The single earned gold in Germany on sales of 250,000 and silver in France after 125,000 copies.

Matt Broadley, who had also directed the video for "All That She Wants", filmed the promo in Gothenburg in January 1993. It opens with a lit candle, and behind Linn Berggren, the lead vocalist after Joker's Latin verse, ancient symbols flicker past, from runic inscriptions and Egyptian hieroglyphs to the Zodiac signs and Darwin's The Origin of Species. An atomic bomb explodes on screen as the lyrics "tell them we've gone too far" arrive. At the end, the candle is blown out.