Heh. John's nation has the same kind of culture that mine did before the unification/revolution. And he's at the exact opposite end of the map. Wait...

Hey, John, d'you want to have it so that your nation is from the same original ethnic group as my nation? I was thinking that we would have had the same proto-nation, but then there was a war over religion which my people lost (banishing them to the far north of the continent).

Seeing as we have very similar cultures (the name of our God is even similar- mine was called Kherem), and my nation was originally in the far south of the continent and had to migrate north, this would make sense. It would also be a great opportunity to build international relations between us.