User blog comment:KingdomOfBavaria/My letter of introduction to the wiki community./@comment-1279322-20121023214655/@comment-1279322-20121023220310

Technically, Japan was already in existence by this RP year. The only difference would be that the RP Japan interacts with other nations. As for the other nations, they were created prior to the rule keeping all nations in the 1700s. Others, like Romania, were allowed to peacefully secede from the Ottoman Empire, which is allowed.