The non-scalability of Overextension

[Tax the Poor]

I find it quite fascinating that, when my 20 000 Development mega-nation hegemon, takes 20 provinces in Europe my entire country suddenly explodes in national unrest caused my a sudden 0 to 200% overextension from less than 1% increase in my nations size.
It feels wrong and ruins my enjoyment of the game. I don't wanna deal with 10-20 rebels in south Africa when my armies are centralized in eastern Europe.
EU4 is a great game but too much time is wasted with stupid things like this.

P.s Add a way of removing buildings faster, it ruins my campaigns...

 

[Arizal]

I agree. It stands to reason that a bigger empire should have more ressources to bring an administration to a comparatively small country. Thus if a continental empire conquers 1/25th of its territory, the strain shouldn't be as hard than if a country doubles its size. Some kind of formula allowing small countries to grow while improving the rate at which bigger countries can grow should be devised.