I have emailed another site requesting the use of all their flag icons. If they give me the go ahead, I will introduce these to the forums and profiles. This will be the first step towards what you suggest.
I'm a captain of a team for another site. One of the things most teams do is exercise cultural diversity, this breaks down the barriers encountered when members belong to specific countries. Some do only except members from certain countries, and that's fine, but with globalization and the events of the world I would like to think we live on earth rather than from a specific country.
Bob-