I've been drafting information from the written works across the forum together to build a rough timeframe of SLO's in-universe history.

Suffice to say for now that there have been roughly 4000 years of intervals of war and peace with about five really big continental conflicts.

I believe, as this ancient archive suggests, that we should be able to make smaller physical structures and therefore "villages" outside the main 11. These villages will have to figure out their own political leanings, but it's otherwise safe to say they'll mostly probably be loyal to the main village whose land they dwell in. We already have some existing examples in the forums, the Jungle Village outside Kazangakure, for example. Or the Villages hidden in Spiders, Arrows, Shadows, or the Hidden Glacier Village in the Snow.
There are already

*flashbacks to scrolling on a touchpad and rapidly hammering directional and number keys*
*Fingers twitch*

I... I think this might have been the first true Bot Post on the website @NinjaMirage

Shinobi Hustle, Inc.

Please consider partnering with Boeki no Tanzo for mutual gain and benefit!

The... incredibly Christian-coded organization...

Love you Manu, hope you come back to make us smile again someday.

It is surprising to see my own first apprentice joined the third generation of Katakiuchi.
So be it, Takumi-san...