The "Survivalist" Trophy
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Venice: still kicking in Cyprus and Crete, Ottomans had the mission to conquer Crete for the whole second part of the game, never acted on it.
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Aragon: alive in Malta, it was so minor I hadn't even realized I had PU'd them at first!
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Ryukyu: is still Ryukyu.
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Quito: still alive as an OPM next to Colombia, still an Andean Inti too...
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Caddo, Pawnee and Aztecs: left untouched while surrounded by powerful colonial nations, but christianized and westernized.
The "making-the-most-of-what-you-have" Trophy
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Norway can into
Scandinavia!
They had the whole damn thing before I started feeding Denmark her cores back.
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Yarkand went from "Chagatai 2.0: the worsening" to "Mongol Empire strikes back". Of course they benefited from being allied to the Ottomans almost the whole game, but they actually more than pulled their own weight while expanding.
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Hungary! They fought the Ottomans a grand total of once in the entire game. The Ottos utterly obliterated them, taking most of their southern territories and leaving the rest completely crippled. Frankly I thought them done for, should have know better. The defeat left them so scared they seemingly engaged "Operation Escape Kebab", which involved them aggressively pushing into Poland and the HRE till they eventually reached the Baltic! They were even bigger than they look now before I started eroding their borders through Lithuania, Austria and Denmark.
The Loser Bracket (AKA "how-the-mighty-have-fallen" Trophy)
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Sweden: turns out entering a succession war against Muscovy for control of Lithuania was a bad idea. Norway picked heavily on the corpse...
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Muscovy/Russia: killed by westernization attempt and a string of terrible rulers stunting the nation, which caused them to be 6 tech levels behind its Eastern tech neighbours while only have TWO ideas unlocked (not goups, actual ideas) by mid 16th century. Lithuanian liberty desire causing constant rebellions (helped by the Ottomans first and Persia second) made the rest, as well as rapacious neighbours. In death, Sweden had the last laugh...
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Austria: death by Legue war (I sat it out, so it was all AI). Actually stopped existing as an independent nation for quite a while, till Hungary forced Saxony to released them as an OPM in Lienz. I subsequently vassalized them and fed them back up.
The "I-might-as-well" Trophy
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Korea taking Exploration and beginning colonization of Siberia... in 1808.