You can have only 1 country in all the levels of normal game.

And you can start 4 countries at the Anarch.

There are no problems with two countries, if you have one in normal and one in anarchist group.

You must link your countries in normal goups.

Group list in normal: 5/V - 4/L - 3/G - 2/B - 1/A
Group list in anarch: 5/Y - 4/M - 3/H - 2/D