This tab lets you manage the list of countries that are available for this site.

The tab appears in two separate places:

In this list you can:

• Enable / Disable countries you want to appear in select lists
• Determine Preferred countries that will always appear at top of lists
• Set a trust status for each country: Unknown, Trusted, Suspect, Blocked

Blocked Countries

Several actions will be blocked if a request (HTTP request) comes from a blocked country (as reported by a helper plugin such as GeoIP Plugin).

See Blocking actions from spammers.

The blocking is done by function antispam_block_by_country() through the antispam_block_request() function and the GeoIP plugin.

Suspect Countries

When a user creates an account from a suspect country, he can automatically be put into a special group, which may have restricted permissions.

The country is also checked at each new login. If a user logs in from a suspect country, he can automatically also be put into the special group automatically, even if he created the account from a cleared country.

See Antispam > Settings > Suspect Users.