Rebels Occupy Isolated Province Forever...

[Shadowstrike]

This one just bothers me - there's always some country that ends up with some far-flung, isolated province, which then gets taken over by pretender, noble or peasant rebels. The rebels can't enforce their demands, and the country can't get troops to defeat the rebels, and often nobody cares enough to take advantage of the situation, so the rebels occupy the territory for decades or even centuries. Couldn't some rule be made that if rebels occupy a province for some sufficiently long period of time (say 25 years, so it can't be abused easily) and they don't enforce their demands, that province becomes independent or joins another nation?

 

[Anatur]

I agree,its a very annoying thing to look at for ingame decades.

A possible solution would be if the rebels automatically defected to the nation which had the core on the province besides the owner.

That could either be a non-existant nation,thus forming a new one,or it could be an existing rival nation,would make sense historically since rebels often tried to get foreign protection after revolting.

One problem i dont rly know how to adress is in the case of colonies without any other cores,maybe have the province devolve into non-colonised land if there arent any possible alternatives.