A metaphor for Sweden's closeted gayness. Also we don't use the term "closet" in England, we tend to call it a wardrobe, or a built in wardrobe, so he clearly doesn't get the joke :p
The smallest US state, Rhode Island (1,212 square miles), has a larger population than the largest US state, Alaska (663,300 square miles), with 1.055 million residents vs. 736,732.
Sweden is honestly one of my favorite Nordics, the other being Greenland because I can relate to the whole ' I ain't afraid of tha--OHSHNIKEYSI'MOUTBYE' thing.
Laughs, laughs, and the design of the cabinet is by the way not bad. It is worth saying that similar designs can be seen and ordered in Antonovich Design Service https://antonovich-design.ae/ This will help save a lot of time and nerves.