Address field asks for a country but won't let you set one

Some of our groups are region specific, so we want to allow users to add in a country or a city that is central to that region. Since there is no actual address, we turned off "Use maps" option, but what the happens is that it shows the entry to allow the user to optionally pick a country, but when you select it the drop down has no entries and the field wont allow you to type anything in (see screenshot) so not sure what's going on?
[this is available on our test site if you need to log in]