Nice monkey script :-). I really do not care about badges, I am here for the content (in cases the lack thereof). But I added some just to fill in the dead-space. My suggestion (and was already suggested) for the badge hiding is to make the fill color the same as the background color.

As for the country badge, I also agree with others that additional limits would be nice. Of course the ultimate badge would be letting users create their own (kinda adding a profile picture).