How can I show country icons in the select list provided by the countries module on the edit page? I am using the 2.x series of the Countries and Country Icons modules.  They are both installed properly on my site.

I have a country field called "Nationality" on the user profile page.  I would like to show the flags in the drop-down list (the select widget) when users are editing their profiles.

There is an example of how to show countryicons with user info in the Country Icons documentation but this is for displayed comments, not an edit form.

Basically, what I want is to give the look that the Language Switcher Dropdown module does (screenshot on module page), but for a country field.
Following MotoTribe's suggestion, I filed a feature request which is already in progress.  Exciting!