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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def is_country(self, text):
 """Check if a piece of text is in the list of countries"""

        ct_list = self._just_cts.keys()
        if text in ct_list:
            return True
        else:
            return False