That seems a bit over-engineered…depending on how/where you use it. I would go with something more like this + some sub exporting (one function, probably with a less generic name) before resorting to objects. It’s really just a simple lookup. 

package OHAI;
use strict;
use warnings;
use Carp;
our %Status = map {; $_ => 1 }
    qw( MMR MM IRN IR CUB CU SSD SS PRK PK SYR SY );

sub status {
    my $country_code = shift || croak "status requires country code";
    $Status{uc$country_code} || croak "Country code '$country_code' un
+defined";
}

1;

__DATA__

=head1 Do you even Pod, bro?

OHAI - ...

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