Creating dropdown list in ASP.NET MVC3 razor view engine from xml file.

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Hi,
I am creating a User Registration form in ASP.NET MVC3 using razor view engine. I am facing problem to create a dropdownlist for country. Country list come from xml file.
My project hierarchy is as follows
BusinessLayer -> User_Account -> Account_Registration.cs

This is a class library in which I want to create a Model for user registration. The code for user model is as follows

public class Account_Registration
{
       public string User_Name { get; set; }
       public string User_EmailID { get; set; }
       public string User_Password { get; set; }
       public string User_RePassword { get; set; }
       public DateTime User_BirthDate { get; set; }
       public enum_Gender User_Gender { get; set; }
       public string User_Address { get; set; }
       public string User_City { get; set; }
       public string User_State { get; set; }
       public IEnumerable<SelectListItem> User_Country { get; set; }
       public string User_WebSite { get; set; }
       public string User_Description { get; set; }
}

Now I want to know that where I should put country XML file and how can I create dropdownlist for XML file.
My Xml file is as follows

<countries>
  <country code="AF" iso="4">Afghanistan</country>
  <country code="AL" iso="8">Albania</country>
  <country code="DZ" iso="12">Algeria</country>
</countries>

As I have to deploy this project on IIS so I want to know where should I put xml file so that I can access it in Account_Registration model which is in class library project and how to create dropdownlist for population countries.
Thanks