nationalities in gismu list

[jkuiper@britannica.com]

I discovered Lojban only recently and I am trying to learn it using the draft-textbook and the reference grammar. 
I also took a look at the gismu list. I noticed that there are quite lot of gismu for nationalities and countries (merko - American, glico - English, etc.). 
Why do some countries (notably rakso - Iraqi, jordo - Jordanian, libjo - Libyan) have a gismu while others don't? That my own country, the Netherlands, is missing is not so strange---for it is only small--- but what about Italy for example?

Greetings,
Jeroen Kuiper


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