If you could have any international country code... what would it be?

I’m really pissed off with the United Kingdom country code.

How come America gets +1 and we’re lumbered at the back of the queue on +44?

Kazakhstan is +7. So is Russia.

HOW did that happen?

I see that Cuba (Guantanamo Bay) is +5399.

EMSAT — the mobile satellite service is apparently +88213. That’s a mouthful.

Back to +44. Romania’s in at +40. That’s FOUR better than the UK. Peru isn’t far off on +51.

South Africa’s on +27.

Sweden +46, Switzerland +41.

Who and what decided how the international dialing codes were allocated?