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When people think of "pulling a Meiji", they always imagine countries in regions outside Europe and America, such as China, Ethiopia or Egypt. But at that time Balkan countries were quite underdeveloped compared to Western Europe. Low literacy rate, lack of industrialization and sad (if not non-existing) infrastructure. Your challenge is to make one of the Balkan countries/nations (Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, etc, your choice) pull a Meiji, chase the Ottomans out of Europe and make it an emerging great power. Is this even remotely possible?
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