In many cases you don't even need if-else or other branching at all. For instance, in your example with country codes, it's much simpler, especially in modern static type languages, to have a map <ContryCode, CountryName> and just use a simple plain get from map. Many languages have out of the box get-or-else, get-or-throw functionality.

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