alphagov/whitehall — comment on commit 6f2fe038e1fc415a24c971e8879435bd39b47dee
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By lazyatom:

This whole thing is really about fixture data in tests - I felt it was reasonable that these countries "just exist" rather than having to create arbitrary sets of countries within each test case, because after this point every policy was going to be associated with England, and going the non-fixture route would add an extra database insert/query to every policy creation, which is almost certainly worse.

However, if the approach that @floehopper is taking to add URLs, it could be that this is no longer necessary, since the relationship is the exceptional case now, rather than the rule.