They can never upgrade to the new government types with monthly autonomy loss, which is a fairly large negative for the mid-end game.
I feel as though special government types are very weak right now.
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By the mid end game, you should be able to stack enough -unrest that you can decrease LA without any repercussions once nationalism is gone.
From what I've seen, special government types come with bonus monthly autonomy loss built-in. Not counting the decay for being at peace.
Well shit, you're right. I guess it's just theocracy that didn't get it. Let me rephrase this to: Theocracy is even worse now.
I probably wouldn't consider theocracies a special government type. The way I see it, there's three types of governments: monarchies, republics, and theocracies. Within those three categories there are special types (Archduchy, Dutch Republic, Papacy, and so on) of those governments.
This isn't to say theocracies are in a good spot, though; they definitely could use a small flavor DLC or just some extra things to help them along added in a patch.
Considering every special government type has -0.1 autonomy EXCEPT theocracy I think we could just go ahead and bump that up.
Standard 'Theocracies' really ought to divide into two government types: Holy Orders and Archbishoprics (different names according to religion). Holy Orders should get the autonomy thing, as they are meant to be expansionist. Archbishoprics should get more 'soft power' bonuses, such as papal influence or diplomatic reputation (representing the fact that these are figures of relatively modest temporal power, but great spiritual authority).
Right now the Papacy gets -autonomy, the Livonian order and Teutonic (as well as all the random german theocracies) do NOT get -autocratic. It's a huge dent in the Teutonic order. I was trying to play a non-Prussian Teutonic run through when I realized that I was going to have to get the sort of cheesy Prussian ideas just to get my government type to advance and not fall off.