Manning Publishing Checkout

This one was a subtle one, I entered what I thought was all of my information, clicked submit and got an error saying the shipping method was not available in my area. It didn't do anything about the fact that I entered a US city and a US state. I think the proper behavior should be either you select a country first, and it gives you the corresponding states/provinces or you enter the state/province and it figures out your country. The worst part about this in my opinion was that the select box default, the DEFAULT was Argentina. A publishing company from Argentina might see value in this, but a US publisher selling books written in English, probably shouldn't have the default as Argentina. In this scenario, I think that "Choose Country" would be fine, or if you are going to default to a country maybe choose the country native to your company.