Please tell me that someone translated the ISO country list and can provide me with a message catalogue file in German :).
If not, I'm currently storing some of the translations in "AMS", but I think the country code list is a prime candidate for storage in ref-countries. Talking about which, why is there a table for country_names in the first place? Shouldn't this be handled through the I18N interface (I know, ref-countries is either older than I18N or written by a native English speaker).
I'm not going to fix ref-countries at the moment, I just hope for translated messages and maybe someone else has already solved that problem.