Here is another: just a text box where you start typing in any language, whatever character set/keyboard Latin or not, and it brings you the closest matches. Yo

Here is another: just a text box where you start typing in any language, whatever character set/keyboard Latin or not, and it brings you the closest matches. You don't need to see the full list of countries just to select one of them. A menu with 200+ items (let alone localization problems) is just so anti-UI, how come we accepted this as a norm?