Fuzzy search unexpectedly ranks Nigeria over Niger when searching for "Niger"

[JovanNj]

Hi,
First of all, thank you for the excellent library, since we a re working a lot on country data we find pycountry very useful.
We stumbled upon one issue: when we try fuzzy search for Niger, it returns results for Niger and Nigeria, with Nigeria as first result. Is it possible to somehow "boost" the result for Niger to the first place?
Also, fuzzy search on "UK" does not return United Kingdom at all.

Best regards,
Jovan Nj

[alanorth]

Another incorrect fuzzy search match with "Saint-Martin":

In [1]: import pycountry

In [2]: pycountry.countries.search_fuzzy("Saint Martin")
Out[2]: [Country(alpha_2='MF', alpha_3='MAF', flag='🇲🇫', name='Saint Martin (French part)', numeric='663')]

In [3]: pycountry.countries.search_fuzzy("Saint-Martin")
Out[3]: [Country(alpha_2='FR', alpha_3='FRA', flag='🇫🇷', name='France', numeric='250', official_name='French Republic')]

The first is correct, the second is not.

[doriand01]

Confirmed that the search result for search_fuzzy() returns Nigeria as first place.