[quote=@Dinh AaronMk]
[@Willy Vereb]

And even lacking the Austrian app, checking back at what I had written for the OP clarifies the situation in Italy:

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So on those grounds I would have to reject a surviving Napoleonic republic at Venice.

The point of divergence is also more or less the Treaty of Tilsit, where Napoleon decided to instead just go ahead and go gamer on the Prussians as a flex and turned around on the Russians when they protested to re-discipline them back into the Continental System, for a time
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Considering the need for players, does the restriction for me to restrict my guys to the Baltic or Balkans still apply?

Edit: Yes, you explained that my previous app could only have worked if I had a suitable foreign patron.

Edit 2: Pre-emptive 'Understood' and 'Point taken' for if the answer to my question is 'yes'.