Sorry to trouble you, but figured somebody here might be able to help me out with a major part of my own mod. I started my own thread about it, but nobody responded.
I'm curious about these provinceless, unplayable nations, the German political parties (Fortschritt Partei, for example). I wanted to use countries like that myself, but as I have no experience with them, I don't know if there are any potential pitfalls. I would like to include a number of these nations in my games, and give them a certain technological setup. This way, instead of having a nation release a puppet (with all of their techs going with it), I could instead have the nation secede a number of provinces to the provinceless nation and have the latter release them, then break the puppet relationship, so that the new state would have all the techs of the provinceless state, as well as guaranteeing that the new state wouldn't automatically be at war with the former mother country's enemies.
Is this something that could easily be done with these unplayable Kaiserreich nations? Or would it mean that the unplayable nation is destroyed, or that it could somehow get involved in a war that could never end, since there'd be no way to annex them?