We decided a week or so ago to stop race/province changes since the round would be resetting so soon.
This sounds innocent enough though, if you're both joining a lone province together then I don't see the harm, just lemme know who you are and where you wanna go. I don't think I'll do a race change, but fine dumping you guys in a province together. Or just wait a couple weeks and you can join a fresh province together when the new round starts... Maybe even make a post about it, you could probably find a few more solo stragglers to team up with and fill out a full province.
We will be doing a short "fun" round after this round finishes, fyi. It will give us some time to roll out new features for round 2.