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It also seems the designers didn't envision any errors - the system always gives a valid result - which indicates this hasn't been particularly well engineered.

A GeoIP lookup can fail, and that error should be propagated through to whoever is using it - instead of returning a default value.




A result of "the USA" may not be an error, just the best data available, not all IPs are in the US.




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