Interesting.
Giving another example, though it is not related to revolutionary mechanics, nor similar to the case, but it involves switzerland and its events:
The player is portugal. Never expanded in europe, not even harassed spain. Stayed catholic (naturally for a portugal run), allied to papacy, spain, etc. Colonised, did not care about the reformation, and minded own business. Then this happened:
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The event fired for the player's portugal. Current owner of geneva is savoy. Needless to say, none of the options has any effect, as the player is portugal, which has nothing to do with the swiss region.
It can be argued that the swiss flavour events certainly have... a condition... err... that their conditionals do not seem to be properly implemented.
Edit: The first option states that should it be chosen, the player, PORTUGAL, converts to reformed.
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