I described the problem here. But would like to have some help / game fix
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Best practice in modding a new country. [bug] state without a region is not removed from the game
I like the modding approach, where the mod contains just a few files that are different from vanilla. Not all vanilla files. But this isn't possible for provinces if you want to mod one new country. COUNTRIES = { STATES = { POPS = { GLOBAL = {...