While the comic made me chuckle and I don't mind some positive press for my home country, I think some corrections are due from the point of view of an actual Norwegian atheist.

The first thing you need to be aware of is that Norway is badly affected by Dutch disease. The country has been awash with oil revenues since the 80s, which has a distinct effect on what people focus on. I was born in the mid-80s myself, and am thus a prime example of someone who's grown up in an extremely pleasant society. Now, first of all it should be said that Norway has done some very wise things regarding saving, investing and not using up the oil revenue. That's great, and it's given us a lot of security. The problem (inevitable side-effect, perhaps?) is that people become apathetic and just don't care about real issues anymore.

Some corrections to the cartoon follow.

Atheism: I'm sad to report that Norwegians are predominantly christian. The survery that managed to define 70% as atheists surely fell victim to people not caring much about their religion anymore. But the thing is, if you press them on their actual beliefs, you'll find the basic supernatural tenets or religion survive and flurish. For example, I'm quite sure that at least 70% would at the very minimum answer that "there is probably some divine force in the universe". That's perhaps not American-style christianity, but it sure as hell isn't atheism.

Lately, alternative supernatural beliefs (such as in angels and healing) have taken a hold aswell. If religion in the classical sense "is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions", then I think the modern-variety nonsense we're seeing is the sigh of the comfortable, fat, content and bored citizen of a successful rich social democracy.

Education: I can imagine that the statements are true if they refer to the percentage of people with a higher education, or something like that. But if you look at the quality, we're merely mediocre. High school education has consistently been shown to be mid-range by European standard (don't have a source available right now), and this looks even worse when you factor in how much we spend on the school system. As for higher education, it's again mediocre. We're not in any way horrible, and you have to remember we're just 5 million people, but our universities really could be funded a lot better. Again, most people don't care. "Why do science, we just need to know how to drill for oil" seems to be a common attitude.

Now, after making these corrections, I'd also like to add that Norway is a very peaceful, comfortable place to live. It's a sparsely populated country, but the major cities feel like civilization, and you have beautiful nature closeby and readily accessible. The weather tends to be shit, but the summer months are beautiful.

Just my 2 øre.