Hi All,
I thought others might have a similar need for this and decided to post my solution. The out of box address field in form requires the state and country, my town clerk wanted them defaulted so a resident wouldn't have to fill them in. I really didn't want to make a separate field for each part, so I did some tinkering was able to get this below to work. It defaulted the state and country to what I wanted it to and then hid the country. I wanted the country to be filled in even if it was hidden.
$('.State').parent().children().val("New York");
$(".Country").parent().children().val("USA");
$(".Country").parent().children().css('display', 'none');