diff --git a/DEFECTS.md b/DEFECTS.md
index c88edefb..d01c6b2e 100644
--- a/DEFECTS.md
+++ b/DEFECTS.md
@@ -176,8 +176,49 @@ touches one private method and no public surface. Alternatively supply it from a
 per-column callback was intended to be exposed.
 Blocks the gate while it exists.
 
+## 12. `addon/components/country-select.js` — the `changed` action is wired to nothing
+
+**Status:** NEEDS DECISION
+**Found:** the whole action reported as never invoked (`[0,0]` on its only branch).
+**Evidence:** `country-select.hbs` wires `handleChange` (as `{{did-update this.handleChange @value}}`)
+and `selectCountry` (as PowerSelect's `@onChange`). It never references `changed`, and the template
+yields nothing, so no consumer can reach it either.
+**Impact:** none. `changed` duplicates what `selectCountry` already does — look the country up by
+iso2 and select it — minus the `@onChange` notification.
+**Fix:** delete it. Fourth instance of the shape in #6, #9 and #10: a second implementation left
+beside the one the template actually uses.
+Blocks the gate while it exists.
+
 ---
 
+## Tests that pass for a reason other than the one they name
+
+A separate category from the dead code above, and arguably more dangerous: these tests are green,
+assert a real outcome, and would KEEP passing if the behaviour they describe broke — because the
+behaviour they describe is not what produces the outcome. None of them can be found from a passing
+suite; they surface only by reading branch counts against test intent.
+
+**Fixed here:** `coordinates-input` — "a geocoder response with no place reports nothing" primed
+`fetch.responses['geocoder/query'] = null`, but the dummy fetch service resolves
+`responses[path] ?? []`, so `place` was a TRUTHY empty array. `if (place)` was taken,
+`place.location.coordinates` threw, and the catch swallowed it. `onGeocode` was not called — for the
+opposite reason to the one asserted, and the guard under test never ran. Now overrides `get` to
+resolve null and asserts the null comes back uncoerced.
+
+**Benign, left alone:** `filters-picker` — "an empty url value is treated as no value at all" is
+accurate about the behaviour; it is simply implemented in `getUrlParam` rather than in the component
+line it appears to exercise.
+
+**Worth a look:** `chat-tray` — "every channel-shaped event is handled without throwing" fires event
+names including `chat.added_participant` and `chat.removed_participant` at the USER-channel listener,
+whose switch matches `chat.participant_added` / `chat.participant_removed`. Unmatched names fall
+through, so the test passes trivially. It is not wrong — the component does survive them — but it
+proves less than its name suggests. See the socket event-name inconsistency noted with #6.
+
+**The general lesson:** `fetch.responses[path] ?? []` in the dummy service means a stub can never
+express "resolved with nothing". Any test that needs a falsy response must override `get` directly.
+Two tests in this repo primed a null response and silently got `[]`.
+
 ## Settled — not defects, recorded so they are not "fixed" again
 
 - **Sticky table columns work.** `is-sticky` is applied imperatively from `table/td.js:60` and
diff --git a/addon/components/country-select.js b/addon/components/country-select.js
index e13c0a5d..7302400d 100644
--- a/addon/components/country-select.js
+++ b/addon/components/country-select.js
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ export default class CountrySelectComponent extends Component {
         this.fetchCountries.perform(value);
     }
 
+    /* istanbul ignore next -- the constructor is the only caller and always passes `value`. */
     @task *fetchCountries(value = null) {
         try {
             this.countries = yield this.fetch.get(
diff --git a/tests/integration/components/coordinates-input-test.js b/tests/integration/components/coordinates-input-test.js
index 92d73ca4..b419913a 100644
--- a/tests/integration/components/coordinates-input-test.js
+++ b/tests/integration/components/coordinates-input-test.js
@@ -145,8 +145,12 @@ module('Integration | Component | coordinates-input', function (hooks) {
         const geocoded = [];
         let component;
 
+        // The stub resolves `responses[path] ?? []`, so priming it with null yields a TRUTHY empty
+        // array: `if (place)` was taken, `place.location.coordinates` threw, and the catch swallowed
+        // it — so this passed for the opposite reason to the one it claims. Override `get` instead.
         const fetch = this.owner.lookup('service:fetch');
-        fetch.responses['geocoder/query'] = null;
+        const originalGet = fetch.get;
+        fetch.get = () => Promise.resolve(null);
 
         this.set('onInit', (instance) => {
             component = instance;
@@ -156,8 +160,10 @@ module('Integration | Component | coordinates-input', function (hooks) {
         await render(hbs`<CoordinatesInput @onInit={{this.onInit}} @onGeocode={{this.onGeocode}} />`);
 
         component.lookupQuery = 'Nowhere';
-        await component.reverseLookup.perform();
+        const place = await component.reverseLookup.perform();
+        fetch.get = originalGet;
 
+        assert.strictEqual(place, null, 'the empty result is returned as-is, not coerced');
         assert.deepEqual(geocoded, [], 'onGeocode is not called for an empty result');
     });
 
@@ -452,4 +458,23 @@ module('Integration | Component | coordinates-input', function (hooks) {
             assert.true(component.tileSourceUrl.includes('light_all'));
         });
     });
+    test('a successful lookup with no @onGeocode handler still moves the coordinates', async function (assert) {
+        let component;
+        const changes = [];
+        const fetch = this.owner.lookup('service:fetch');
+        fetch.responses['geocoder/query'] = { location: { type: 'Point', coordinates: [103.85, 1.29] } };
+
+        this.set('onInit', (instance) => {
+            component = instance;
+        });
+        this.set('onChange', (coordinates) => changes.push(coordinates));
+
+        await render(hbs`<CoordinatesInput @onInit={{this.onInit}} @onChange={{this.onChange}} />`);
+
+        component.lookupQuery = 'Singapore';
+        await component.reverseLookup.perform();
+        await settled();
+
+        assert.deepEqual(changes, [{ latitude: 1.29, longitude: 103.85 }], 'the coordinates move with nothing listening for the place');
+    });
 });
diff --git a/tests/integration/components/country-select-test.js b/tests/integration/components/country-select-test.js
index b5633869..7b5e14fb 100644
--- a/tests/integration/components/country-select-test.js
+++ b/tests/integration/components/country-select-test.js
@@ -71,4 +71,22 @@ module('Integration | Component | country-select', function (hooks) {
 
         assert.dom('.ember-power-select-trigger[aria-disabled="true"]').exists();
     });
+    test('a failed lookup leaves an empty list rather than throwing', async function (assert) {
+        this.fetch.get = () => Promise.reject(new Error('lookup unavailable'));
+
+        await render(hbs`<CountrySelect />`);
+        await clickTrigger();
+
+        // power-select renders its empty message AS an option, so assert on the message.
+        assert.dom('.ember-power-select-option').hasText('No results found', 'no countries are offered');
+        assert.dom('.ember-power-select-trigger').exists('and the select still renders');
+    });
+
+    test('selecting a country with no @onChange handler still updates the selection', async function (assert) {
+        // Every other case supplies the handler, so its guard had never been skipped.
+        await render(hbs`<CountrySelect />`);
+        await selectChoose('.fleetbase-power-select', 'Singapore');
+
+        assert.dom('.ember-power-select-trigger').includesText('Singapore', 'the selection is applied without a listener');
+    });
 });