South Sudan (SS) not known in Locale of Java

Question

I'm currently programming a payment program and I'm encountering an issue with my validation of BIC's. I have a giant list of all known BIC's but one seems to fail (I validate on it's ISO country code where is use the build in Locale API from Java.
But unfortunately it doesn't seem to know South Sudan (SS) as valid ISO country, but according to Wikipedia and Swift (=keeper of the BIC's) South Sudan is a valid country and ISO:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:SS
Also Java seems to follow the ISO 3166 standard and they also state that South Sudan SS exists:
http://www.iso.org/iso/support/country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists/iso-3166-1_decoding_table.htm#SS
I can work around this (but I don't like to create exceptions for this sort of things :p), but maybe someone can give me an explanation. Or should I submit a bug report ;)?
Thanks in advanced
Regards

Answer 1

Updated yesterday to be sure I had the latest version:
Java JDK 7.0u4
NetBeans 7.1.2
Below I'm listing all country code's available to Java. SS doesn't seem to be in there :-/
Result of following code
Locale country = new Locale("en", "SS");
System.out.println(country.getDisplayCountry() + "\nList all countery CODE");
for (String con : Locale.getISOCountries()) {
     System.out.println(con);
Properties p = System.getProperties();
Enumeration keys = p.keys();
while (keys.hasMoreElements()) {
     String key = (String) keys.nextElement();
     String value = (String) p.get(key);
     System.out.println(key + ": " + value);
}SS >> This should be South Sudan, but since Java doesn't know it, they display SS
List all countery CODE
AD|AE|AF|AG|AI|AL|AM|AN|AO|AQ|AR|AS|AT|AU|AW|AX|AZ|BA|BB|BD|BE|BF|BG|BH|BI|BJ|BL|BM|BN|BO|BQ|BR|BS|BT|BV|BW|BY|BZ|CA|CC|CD|CF|CG|CH|CI|CK|CL|CM|CN|CO|CR|CU|CV|CW|CX|CY|CZ|DE|DJ|DK|DM|DO|DZ|EC|EE|EG|EH|ER|ES|ET|FI|FJ|FK|FM|FO|FR|GA|GB|GD|GE|GF|GG|GH|GI|GL|GM|GN|GP|GQ|GR|GS|GT|GU|GW|GY|HK|HM|HN|HR|HT|HU|ID|IE|IL|IM|IN|IO|IQ|IR|IS|IT|JE|JM|JO|JP|KE|KG|KH|KI|KM|KN|KP|KR|KW|KY|KZ|LA|LB|LC|LI|LK|LR|LS|LT|LU|LV|LY|MA|MC|MD|ME|MF|MG|MH|MK|ML|MM|MN|MO|MP|MQ|MR|MS|MT|MU|MV|MW|MX|MY|MZ|NA|NC|NE|NF|NG|NI|NL|NO|NP|NR|NU|NZ|OM|PA|PE|PF|PG|PH|PK|PL|PM|PN|PR|PS|PT|PW|PY|QA|RE|RO|RS|RU|RW|SA|SB|SC|SD|SE|SG|SH|SI|SJ|SK|SL|SM|SN|SO|SR|ST|SV|SX|SY|SZ|TC|TD|TF|TG|TH|TJ|TK|TL|TM|TN|TO|TR|TT|TV|TW|TZ|UA|UG|UM|US|UY|UZ|VA|VC|VE|VG|VI|VN|VU|WF|WS|YE|YT|ZA|ZM|ZW
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Edited by: 923091 on Apr 30, 2012 1:56 PM