Replacing NULL and empty string within Select statement

Try this

COALESCE(NULLIF(Address.COUNTRY,''), 'United States')

Sounds like you want a view instead of altering actual table data.

Coalesce(NullIf(rtrim(Address.Country),''),'United States')

This will force your column to be null if it is actually an empty string (or blank string) and then the coalesce will have a null to work with.

An alternative way can be this: - recommended as using just one expression -

case when address.country <> '' then address.country
else 'United States'
end as country

Note: Result of checking null by <> operator will return false.
And as documented: NULLIF is equivalent to a searched CASE expression
and COALESCE expression is a syntactic shortcut for the CASE expression.
So, combination of those are using two time of case expression.