Selenium and AngularJS 2 select (dropdown), Cannot get selected value in c# [closed]

Question

I am looking to find out how to get the value for a dropdown from an angularjs dropdown (for country).

I found the special handling needed for basic text fields:

Driver.Instance.FindElement(By.XPath("//input[@name='firstName']")).GetAttribute("value");

But cannot find the value for the dropdown or any examples of how to do this. Am I missing something simple? I would assume a solution for this would be out there, especially with finding examples with an input field.

Here is the html as asked:

<input type="text" autocomplete="off" tabindex="-1" aria-expanded="true" aria-label="Select box" aria-owns="ui-select-choices-3" aria-activedescendant="ui-select-choices-row-3-263" class="form-control ui-select-search ng-pristine ng-valid ng-touched" placeholder="Choose Country" ng-model="$select.search" ng-show="$select.searchEnabled &amp;&amp; $select.open" style="">