[android help] how to use simple getter and setter with android

I have a class country with an arraylist that stores countries. I have created a get and set to add and get items from specified indexes from the array list but i wont work. Whenever i call an index from the arraylist i get an out of bounds exception because the array is empty or at least seems to be.

public class country extends Application {

    public ArrayList countryList = new ArrayList();
    public String Name;
    public String Code;
    public String  ID;

    public country()
    {

    }

    public country(String name, String id, String code)
    {
        this.Name = name;
        this.ID = id;
        this.Code = code;
    }

    public void setCountry(country c)
    {
        countryList.add(c);
    }

    public country getCountry(int index)
    {   
        country aCountry = countryList.get(index);
        return aCountry;
    }

to call the setter i use.

country ref = new country();

ref.setCountry(new country (sName, ID, Code));

then when i want to get an index

String name = ref.countryList.get(2).Name;

i have done the same thing but used a local arraylist and it populated fine and i was able to display the names so the datasource isnt the problem its whatever im doing wrong setting and getting the data inside the arraylist in the country class

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