Edit/Create contact without "Country" enabled generates error

To duplicate this error, Navigate to: CiviCRM » Administer CiviCRM » Global Settings » Address Settings. Deselect "Country" in the Address Editing section. Save settings.

Any attempt to create or edit a contact results in this error message:

Array
(
[callback] => Array
(
[0] => CRM_Core_Error
[1] => handle
)

[code] => -3
[message] => QuickForm Error: nonexistent html element
[mode] => 16
[debug_info] => Element 'location[1][address][country_id]' does not exist in HTML_QuickForm::getElementValue()
[type] => HTML_QuickForm_Error
[user_info] => Element 'location[1][address][country_id]' does not exist in HTML_QuickForm::getElementValue()
[to_string] => [html_quickform_error: message="nonexistent html element" code=-3 mode=callback callback=CRM_Core_Error::handle prefix="QuickForm Error: " info="Element 'location[1][address][country_id]' does not exist in HTML_QuickForm::getElementValue()"]
)

Occured both on my install and recreated at demo.civicrm.org/drupal