### 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.↵
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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.↵
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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! ↵
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Okay, should be much better now... Huh? Does nobody Yeah figures. ↵
actually know about this country?↵
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Wait what the..? But... This is actual [Marshall Islands' ISO code](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Islands)...↵
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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!↵
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Okay, let me just press this button real quick and... Say what? Okay maybe... ↵
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Nope. Not it either.↵
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Okay, I suppose I have to. ↵
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Wow. That's pretty cool. But I think I know what's going to happen... Yup. Just as I expected.↵
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Getting slowly frustrated... Let's see what countries have pretty flags as well? There has to be another one...↵
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THERE! Solomon Islands! Let's try that!↵
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DARN IT! Please let me have this one, just this one..!↵
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FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUU~~~!↵
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**OKAY! I'VE HAD ENOUGH! I'LL JUST USE KAZAKHSTAN'S FLAG, IT CAN'T BE WORSE THAN THAT NIGHTMARE INDUCING CRAP!**↵
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 **THERE! PERFECT!** ↵
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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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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.↵
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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?↵
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Wait what the..? But... This is actual [Marshall Islands' ISO code](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Islands)...↵
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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!↵
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Okay, let me just press this button real quick and... Say what? Okay maybe... ↵
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Nope. Not it either.↵
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Okay, I suppose I have to. ↵
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Wow. That's pretty cool. But I think I know what's going to happen... Yup. Just as I expected.↵
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Getting slowly frustrated... Let's see what countries have pretty flags as well? There has to be another one...↵
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THERE! Solomon Islands! Let's try that!↵
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DARN IT! Please let me have this one, just this one..!↵
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FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUU~~~!↵
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**OKAY! I'VE HAD ENOUGH! I'LL JUST USE KAZAKHSTAN'S FLAG, IT CAN'T BE WORSE THAN THAT NIGHTMARE INDUCING CRAP!**↵
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 **THERE! PERFECT!** ↵
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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?
