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I guess it depends on how comfortable you are with being accused of racism.
My thoughts jumped back to the Roman Empire of the 1st century. But then I realized that we could set up distinct national species in that time period and figure out how they would have mixed 1400 years later.
The Romans of Italy sound like the baseline empire builders. They are human.
The Romans took well-educated Greeks as slaves to teach their children. That makes the Greeks feel like an old race, the elves.
Gaul was the home of barbarians. Make the German provinces the original home of goblins.
Dwarves like mountains. Put them in the Alps and other mountain ranges.
Halflings are based on the hobbits who lived in a region inspired by the English countryside. Halflings go to the British Isles.
The highly-religious Jews of Israel could be represented by an exotic species such as Tengu. Egypt is another exotic place, so how about gnomes for them?
I have no idea for Spain, so maybe more humans or an uncommon ancestry.
Then we extrapolate some fantasy history based on Earth history, The Roman empire expanded, planting humans all over Europe. The elves and tengu likewise expanded, forming enclaves in the cities. The Roman empire fell and the goblins overran Italy. The humans under their version of Charlemagne established the Holy Roman Empire, putting humans in control again. The gnomes can represent Timer, AKA Tamerlane, who founded the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East in the 14th century. The Hundred Years War of 1337–1453 would put halflings into northern France. Their Dexterity bonus could give them yeomen archers to defeat human knights. Eventually a human Joan of Arc would break the siege of Orléans by the halfling forces.
So I was wondering does paizo have any information about heritage, Identity and nationality collide in Golarian ?
Yes, a lot of PF1 and PF2 campaign setting material, such as the PF1 Halflings of Golarion and Elves of Golarion and the PF2 World Guide, contain that information.
So I was wondering does paizo have any information about heritage, Identity and nationality collide in Golarian ?Yes, a lot of PF1 and PF2 campaign setting material, such as the PF1 Halflings of Golarion and Elves of Golarion and the PF2 World Guide, contain that information.
Though mind you, with respect to Elves of Golarion there has been some commentary from the creative types lamenting how much the stock Tolkien elf archetype made it into descriptions when Golarion elves have much less to do with the stoic, stern, and isolationist vibe.
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Unrelated to that, I have also been thinking of creating a homebrew setting with inspiration from the collapse of Rome. In my case I'm planning on having a large variety of ancestries who are considered to have been standard citizens of the empire.
One thing that popular history will not teach you is just how incredibly diverse the empire was compared to our default image of the empire (which, for mysterious reasons sounds British). Even if you plan to ascribe fantasy species to the different people groups, I encourage you do look a little into how different groups may have functioned. As a random example, iirc the city of Rome itself was actually founded on the corner between three different peoples (Etruscans, Latines, and a third I forget), one of which spoke an entirely unrelated language to the other two.
There is a lot of room for complexity is what I'm saying. If you're interested and willing to tolerate a bit of reading, there is a blog, "A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry" which specializes in Roman history especially in the context of little known misconceptions.
EDIT: aaand I just noticed you have a much later date and different country in mind than the conclusion I jumped to in the above response XD oh well, the ACOUP blog is still very useful in general for ferreting out historical misconceptions