diff --git a/pycountry_wrapper/__about__.py b/pycountry_wrapper/__about__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 88e9b11..0000000
--- a/pycountry_wrapper/__about__.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-__version__ = "0.0.4"
-__name__ = "pycountry_wrapper"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pycountry_wrapper/__init__.py b/pycountry_wrapper/__init__.py
index fbd10bf..7d57cfd 100644
--- a/pycountry_wrapper/__init__.py
+++ b/pycountry_wrapper/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from .country import Country, EmptyCountry, EmptyCountryException
 from . import config
 
+__name__ = "pycountry_wrapper"
 __all__ = [
     "Country",
     "EmptyCountry",
diff --git a/pycountry_wrapper/__main__.py b/pycountry_wrapper/__main__.py
index 16afc37..054f9ee 100644
--- a/pycountry_wrapper/__main__.py
+++ b/pycountry_wrapper/__main__.py
@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
-from .__about__ import __name__, __version__
+from . import __name__
 from . import Country, EmptyCountry, config
 
-import pycountry
-
 
 def cli():
-    print(f"Running {__name__} version {__version__} from __main__.py")
+    print(f"Running {__name__} from __main__.py")
+    import pycountry
     config.fallback_country = "US"
     t = pycountry.countries.get(alpha_2="DE")
 
diff --git a/pycountry_wrapper/country.py b/pycountry_wrapper/country.py
index aeb0072..e33bfec 100644
--- a/pycountry_wrapper/country.py
+++ b/pycountry_wrapper/country.py
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 from typing import Optional, Union
 from functools import wraps
-from typing_extensions import Self
 import pycountry
 import pycountry.db
 
@@ -120,7 +119,7 @@ class EmptyCountry(Country):
     This will be used if you don't want to use a fallback country but you still want to be able to not have None
     You can access the same attributes but they will just return None
     """
-    def __new__(cls, country: Optional[str] = None, pycountry_object: Optional[pycountry.db.Country] = None, **kwargs):
+    def __new__(cls, country: Optional[str] = None, pycountry_object: Optional[pycountry.db.Country] = None, **kwargs) -> Union[Country, EmptyCountry]:
         try:
             return Country(country=country, pycountry_object=pycountry_object, disable_fallback=True)
         except EmptyCountryException:
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 3255e58..8412c0f 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ name = "pycountry-wrapper"
 dependencies = [
     "pycountry~=24.6.1",
 ]
-dynamic = ["version"]
+version = "1.0.0"
+dynamic = []
 authors = []
 description = "This is a wrapper for pycountry, to make said library more usable."
 readme = "README.md"
@@ -32,6 +33,3 @@ packages = ["pycountry_wrapper"]
 
 [tool.hatch.metadata]
 allow-direct-references = true
-
-[tool.hatch.version]
-path = "pycountry_wrapper/__about__.py"