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However force releasing other countries who you can then marry is nice since you start at max relations and allied so its often not much work to diplovassilise them.
When force-releasing, you can generally marry and then vassalize if they are less than 4 provinces, never if they are 4 or more. Sometimes I country pops out as an administrative republic or something else you can't marry with, and then you can't.