How do I make a Flash quiz with an internal high score table dividing players by country?
I want to make a geography Flash quiz of the "how well do you know other countries?" variant. The catch is, after each question there should be a stats page comparing your score with players from other countries' scores, so you can see who knows each other best.
To acheive that, I suppose the quiz needs to figure out the IP of the player, figure out the country from that, write that alongside the score in some sort of server-side file or database, and query that after each question to show how's the player doing when compared to other countries.
Is this a big security no-no? What are the implications? How to pull this off?
Background: I'm just a graphic designer studying Actionscript, so very basic answers are appreciated.
I may be way over my head here - who would be the ideal person to ask for help or include in this project? What I should study to understand the steps involved at least in theory, so I can talk to this person? What should I study in Flash so I can make my part of the deal interface smoothly with the "other side"?