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Originally Posted by Al Gebra

By the look of it none of the codes is really consistent. Have a look at Comparison of IOC, FIFA, and ISO 3166 country codes. Personally, I tend to prefer the FIFA codes.

They are very similar, but I prefer IOC codes because LAT makes more sense than LVA and the United Kingdom is not blank.

There is no reason why we have to keep rigidly to one code. We could use ISO code GRL for 'Mikki' from Greenland and, as mentioned before, add EUR for Europe (country unknown). Think of this as extending the internet domain code EU to three letters.