Playing as a republic with 1000+ development, recently upgraded to empire but still out of the limits of governing capacity. I have less than half of my culture counties, so it's far from creating vassals or trading companies. I enacted infrastructure ideas, already picked some expanded infrastructures and every county have a courthouse. The tech level is 11, so it should be slightly better on 12, but still far from enough. So, my reform level is only 7 and it's not possible to expand the infrastructure for at least 50 years, how should I expand my government if every free MP is going on developing the counties? How could you keep blobs without government capacity? I still far enough to make trade companies because as I said - I only at the state making regular duchies with my culture group and underdevelopment counties are not the case here. According to simple calculations, I need at least 3000 GP when I conquer all counties of my culture.