Client State of a Client State

[Snow Crystal]

Interesting topic. My understanding and the wording of the wiki is that subjects in IR (regardless of their type) are seriously restricted in terms of diplomacy:



For me that rules out that a subject is supposed to be able to have a subject - and if that happens under certain circumstances, I would consider it a bug/oversight....similar to an issue I experience, when signing peace and my loyal feudatories continuing the war ( https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...-war-after-overlord-has-signed-peace.1390281/ ).

It is indeed a bug. I would assume a mission, decision, or event forget to do a proper check for it. You can assign subjects to subjects via Script, but it's not supposed to happen.