Regarding area and year of formation/disbandment/birth/death for fictitious artists

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Character artist areas, in-universe or IRL?

I’ve been dealing a lot with character artists recently, and had a question before I get too far… I’ll start with a couple examples: in the anime Hetalia, all the characters are based on countries. for instance, you’ve got America, Italy, France, etc. (stereotypes abound, lol). in-universe, these characters are from their respective countries, so should that be reflected in their areas and/or begin areas? should one or both of them be set to Japan, as that’s where the characters were created/or…