var countryArray = new Array('Albania','Algeria','Andorra','Angola','Armenia','Austria','Azerbaijan','Bahrain','Barundi','Belarus','Belgium','Benin','Bosnia and Herzegovina','Botswana','Bulgaria','Burkina Faso','Cameroon','Cape Verde','Central African Republic','Chad','Comoros','Congo','Cote D\'Ivoire','Croatia','Cyprus (North)','Cyprus','Czech Republic','Denmark','Djibouti','Egypt','Equatorial Guinea','Eritrea','Estonia','Ethiopia','Faroe Islands','Finland','France','Gabon','Gambia','Georgia','Germany','Ghana','Gibraltar','Greece','Greenland','Guinea','Guinea-Bissau','Holy See (Vatican City State)','Hungary','Iceland','Ireland','Israel','Italy','Jordan','Kazakhstan','Kenya','Kirghizstan','Kuwait','Latvia','Lebanon','Lesotho','Liberia','Liechtenstein','Lithuania','Luxembourg','Macedonia','Madagascar','Malawi','Mali','Malta','Mauritania','Mauritius','Mayotte','Moldova, Republic Of','Monaco','Morocco','Mozambique','Namibia','Netherlands','Niger','Nigeria','Norway','Oman','Poland','Portugal','Qatar','Reunion','Romania','Russian Federation','Rwanda','San Marino','Sao Tome and Principe','Saudi Arabia','Senegal','Sierra Leone','Slovakia','Slovenia','Somalia','South Africa','Spain','St. Helena','Swaziland','Sweden','Switzerland','Tajikistan','Tanzania','Tunisia','Turkey','Turkmenistan','Uganda','Ukraine','United Arab Emirates','United Kingdom','Uzbekistan','Yemen','Zaire','Zambia','Zimbabwe');

function countries_as_options()    // optional arg: default country, eg "Belgium"
{
  var def_country = (arguments[0] ? arguments[0] : '');
  var ret = '';
  ret += '<option value=""' + (arguments[0] ? get_selected(def_country,'') : ' selected ') + '></option>\n';
  for(i=0;i<countryArray.length;i++)
    ret += '<option value="' + countryArray[i]+ '"' + get_selected(def_country,countryArray[i]) + '>' + countryArray[i] + '</option>\n';
  return ret;
}

function get_selected(a,b)
{
  return(a == b ? ' selected ' : ''); // choose whether to write 'selected' or not.
}