I read a similar idea by someone else, but it was marked as "already exists" and I don't think it does.
We are unable to see the country field in NXT (unless we go in to edit an address).
If someone writes to use from Manchester (UK), we are likely to assume it's Manchester (MA) if no country field is present.
It would be great if this could be fixed/improved.
Exporting the Country field is also problematic (Mail).