Why don't registrars redact country and state/province?

How come country and state/province is often excluded from WHOIS privacy? So everything else is redacted, but not country and state. However, apparently there's no special requirement from ICANN, so in principle you can redact country/state also.

But why do so many registrars not do so? Why would you expose country/state even after redacting the rest?

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