Facts

Gustavus Adolphus The Great (or Gustav Adolph II), the lion of the north, King of Sweden, is known to be the “Father of modern warfare. He was the one who introduced Sweden to the grand European empire, making it one, if not the major power for the next 150 years. Sweden, at the time, developed one of the first professional army of it’s time, an army which was more technologically advanced than many more nations. He completely expulsed Russia out of the Baltic Sea and if he did not die during the 30 years war, he might of conquered a big chunk of Germany.

He was admired and studied by Napoleon I himself.

The Second French Empire lasted longer than The First

It just depends how exactly you define country; there various definitions.

Once you propper name what you mean (iE. countries accepted from country x, members of the UN etc.) you can count them of course - there no unknown "countries", on this planet.

To be fair, even tho it sounds stupid, studying memes is helpful in terms of it's effects in social media and affecting people's behaviors in, say, buying a product. So i'm not surprised if the U.S government would do something like that. What i'm surprised tho is that a company didn't do it first.