or at least, where people
say they're from (it's the paranoid network administrator in me
Presumably Charles has a list of profiles w/ country data, and the IP
address the profile was created from. It would be interesting to
cross-reference the IP through a GeoIP database and see how frequently
the registration data matched the GeoIP data.
If this is accurate enough, the registration form could default to the detected country - save the user a step
There could be a checkbox for "make this country info public via an International Avatar" as well.