Some good stuff from my latest Persia game.
Japan controls Korea despite not being united
France culture-converting in all directions
Incredibly successful Haiti and new world natives surviving well into the 18th century (as of 1791, Iroquois still exists. They are allied with England, but it's not a very big England, so still confusing. And yes, they are still totemist).
And the most successful Catholicism I have ever seen, reducing Protestantism, reformed, and orthodoxy to fringe movements (I guess I influenced this a bit, as I destroyed the Ottomans and allied Poland essentiallythe whole game, but still).
Appropriately, the papal states are massive.