> Countries that ceased to exist are not listed Where I work, we have a very thoroughly compiled list of countries for our user profile "Country" dropdown. It

> Countries that ceased to exist are not listed Where I work, we have a very thoroughly compiled list of countries for our user profile "Country" dropdown. It never ceases to amuse me that people signing up for our services are given choices such as: - Neutral Zone - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - Unknown or Invalid Region I think it's from the framework we use or something. I suppose it is somewhat reassuring that we're prepared if the USSR ever re-emerges or another Gulf War breaks out. We have a similarly thorough list of possible languages for another dropdown which is used to indicate the language of the things our users create. If SignWriting ever gets absorbed into Unicode, we'll be prepared with our "Sign Language" dropdown option.