# `ip_country_differs_from_address_country`: the IP address and the postal address name different countries

The address the request came from geolocates to one country and the postal address stands in another.

- Appears in: `flag`
- Billing: Free. The consistency analysis is arithmetic over answers already paid for and never costs a credit of its own.

The comparison is only made when the IP is not a VPN, a relay or a datacenter egress. On those the country belongs to the operator rather than to the person, so the check is withheld instead of answered.

Travel, a corporate proxy and a household VPN all produce this honestly.

**What to do.** Treat it as one input among several. It is a fact about two fields, not a judgement about a person.

```json
{
    "comparison": "ip_address_country",
    "left": {
        "signal": "ip",
        "field": "country",
        "value": "DE"
    },
    "right": {
        "signal": "address",
        "field": "country",
        "value": "US"
    },
    "result": "differ",
    "flag": "ip_country_differs_from_address_country"
}
```

Reference: https://spaw.co/docs/reasons/ip_country_differs_from_address_country