So what?

I suppose you've seen this "alternative" medal table for the Olympics, where all the countries in the EU (including us) have been lumped together to show that the EU got more medals than anybody else and therefore "won" the Games at Rio.  Don't know if it was meant to be taken seriously, but of course it completely ignores the fact that there are limits on how many athletes a "country" can enter into an event - and indeed on how many events a single athlete can compete in.  So it's interesting, but worthless.