The story
From country + ball by analogy with Polandball. Created by a user named "Falco", a British user on the German imageboard krautchan.net, in August 2009.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
countryball
Today it means: A country or other political entity personified as a crudely drawn anthropomorphic blob, drawn in the Polandball artstyle. Full definition →