Statehood and more

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Hi, I'm playing the demo and have a few questions:
What's the advantage of turning a colonial state into a state? What happens when I do this? Is there any way to close an RGO, like in Victoria 1? I found out I can end slavery, and want to try this, but what exactly happens to the liberated pops? Do they start paying taxes and producing more? I'm also noticing a lot of assimilation and religious conversion. Is this a good thing? If so, how can I promote it? Thanks guys.

 

[xox]

Just to bump this- how do you make a colonial state a state?

 

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Just to bump this- how do you make a colonial state a state?

National focus to promote bureaucrats in the area.
If there is more than a certain % of bureaucrats of an accepted culture, you can turn it into a state.

 

[Liniert]

another question, how do you tell if a state is a colonial one?

 

[xox]

National focus to promote bureaucrats in the area.
If there is more than a certain % of bureaucrats of an accepted culture, you can turn it into a state.

Where will that option be?

(sorry for the daft questions but I'm still playing the demo, no manual for me!)

another question, how do you tell if a state is a colonial one?

A small picture of a hut on it in the population screen which says colonial if you mouse over.

 

[Lauri]

The option is the hut.. When you can turn it into a state, it's clickable
You'll probably want to use a NF to encourage Bureaucrats, but sometimes there still are none at 100% effectiveness, so Immigration might be another option

What I've noticed is that the immigration really slows down when you convert a colony to a state. As Argentina the colony I got 10 years after the first one had 250k while they one I took first and quickly made into a state, only had about 42k..
So from now on, I'll attract immigrants until there's enough pops there..
I don't know if that's acctually the case though, that colonies are faster populated than states, but it seemed that way to me.. It does however make some sense, people wanting to start a new life in a colony, not another state of your country

 

[xox]

Thanks.
This is very strange though. Some provinces have the rate go up quite quickly and so I can state them. Others though don't have it go up at all.
There seems to be no logical reason why some work and others do not- Wyoming does not but British Colombia does. I wonder what effects having burocrats appear.