High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Happy Nation is the debut album of Ace of Base, a pop music group based in Sweden. It was released in early 1993 in Europe, Africa and Latin America on Festival Records. The album is the third highest-selling debut album by a group after Guns N` Roses and Linkin Park. It reached the number one position in at least 14 countries, and has sold over 23 million copies worldwide.