A small Country

When the company Skype was sold for many, many millions, a pundit on CNN was lauding the young entrepreneurs from, he said, Sweden and Lithuania.
Say What ?
I checked and as I thought, it was a Swede and a DANE who had started and then sold this company.
Easy mistake to make. Both countries--Lithuania and Denmark--are small and only separated by the Baltic sea and some thousand years of history. Easy.
But then it happened again.
I was watching the unfolding saga of the captain being held hostage by the Somali pirates when the announcer on BBC was telling us that the ship involved was Norwegian.
Well, the last time I checked, the owner of that ship is Maersk Lines, of Denmark.
What difference, you might rightly ask, does it make to the story of the sale of the telecommunications company and the plight of the poor, kidnapped captain.
None.
Only when the country is a small as Denmark, roughly the population of Wisconsin, it becomes kind of important to gather all the glory due. There is so little of it to begin with.
It is standing up for the little guy.