when filling in applications on the internet for, say, erm ... to subscribe to an on-line magazine? or something like that, more often than not there is a box to tick for 'Country'. NOT Nationality. Same applies to a boxes to tick for 'age' and 'gender'.

I suspect it's more to do with Market Research, for instance so's they know what spam e-mail would be appropriate to send you, assuming you have ticked the box to receive such stuff.

Maybe Qatari simply used a programme which was made up that same way?