The Wild forests of Mattisskogen is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Ronja with an even hand, and remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, compulsory military service, and state-planned economy. The compassionate population of 10.29 billion highwaymen are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government prioritizes Education, with Administration, Law & Order, and Environment also on the agenda, while Spirituality is ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mattisborgen. The average income tax rate is 67.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong rogue economy, worth 522 trillion ᚱ runstyckes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Cheese Exports industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Book Publishing, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 50,817 ᚱ runstyckes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

There are six more weeks of winter if a northerner sees his shadow, the new national campaign exhorts men to "Show Some Class - Don't Sit On Your Ass", the nation has opened its arms to an influx of refugees, and seven-year-olds debate for weeks on the merits of the Oxford comma. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mattisskogen's national animal is the salmon, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is deep animism.

Mattisskogen is ranked 320,241^st in the world and 1^st in Mattisskogen for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -193.45 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.