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By Xephy, history, 8 years ago, In English

Hello, you're about to read a blog article which contains a lot of cringe-worthy jokes, so if you're not here for the dumb 15-year old humour please skip to the latest line of this blog entry.

So I've been switching countries on Codeforces lately because I wanted to switch flags up a little bit, since there are a lot of countries with pretty neat flags. One of the countries whose flag I became really intrested in was the "Republic of the Marshall Islands". It even sounds amazing! So I go to settings to switch my country.

   


Aah, the good Trinidad and Tobago country tag, I'll miss you!  What? "a new country"? Oh wait, choose the short name, oh silly me!
         
Okay, should be much better now... Huh? Does nobody              Yeah figures.
     actually know about this country?

                   
                   Wait what the..? But... This is actual Marshall Islands' ISO code...

   

Okay, I didn't really want a Marshall Islands flag anyway... Oh, I know! Central African Republic's Flag looks pretty neat, I'll use that!

   


Okay, let me just press this button real quick and...              Say what? Okay maybe...
                
                        Nope. Not it either.


                  Okay, I suppose I have to.

  Wow. That's pretty cool. But I think I know what's going to happen...           Yup. Just as I expected.

   

Getting slowly frustrated... Let's see what countries have pretty flags as well? There has to be another one...

THERE! Solomon Islands! Let's try that!

   

     
           DARN IT!                 Please let me have this one, just this one..!

                  
                        FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUU~~~!

   

                  

   

OKAY! I'VE HAD ENOUGH! I'LL JUST USE KAZAKHSTAN'S FLAG, IT CAN'T BE WORSE THAN THAT NIGHTMARE INDUCING CRAP!

 THERE! PERFECT!

   

So yeah, umm... Could you update your country database pretty please? There are ton of non-existing countries using ISO codes of actually existing countries which kinda messes up people that come from these countries (Like I said: Marshall Islands, Central African Republic, Solomon Islands, etc.) It may not be a problem now, but since Codeforces is growing every contest, we might run into this problem later on. There are plenty of fictional non-existing countries/alignments that take up several ISO codes of countries that are not listed yet. Could you please address this issue?

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