Company officers > address > country field optional/redundant?

Hi folks I’m developing against the company officers API and I’m not getting address > country field back even though it’s not marked as optional in the documentation.
Does anyone know if this field is optional or redundant or what?
Is there a documentation update coming to address this?
Also see similar concern here Inconsistencies in registered office address country field

Thanks

The specification needs to be changed.
For development purposes please treat as an optional field because the country value does not always exist in our stored data.