title: How to set default value in laravel collective form
body: <p>i'm fetching data from database and want to make dropdown list with one value selected by default</p>
  
  <p>i tried this
  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29508297/laravel-5-how-to-populate-select-box-from-database-with-id-value-and-name-value">Laravel-5 how to populate select box from database with id value and name value</a></p>
  
  <p>but nothing happen</p>
  
  <p>my view file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div class="row"&gt;
      &lt;!-- Country ID Field --&gt;
      &lt;div class="form-group col-sm-6"&gt;
          {!! Form::label('country_id', 'Country ID:') !!}
          {!! Form::select('country_id',$countries, isset($user) ? $user-&gt;country_id : 'Nepal', ['class' =&gt; 'form-control']) !!}
      &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>i'm new to laravel-collective..please help :) </p>