So we have some idea of how powerful majors can get, I think it's worth spelling out the 'standard range' of size for the majors:
The maximum is the largest area over which the major is 'legitimised' by events granting cores or ceding the provinces. Majors can exceed their maximum, but they won't get events rewarding them further if they do so. We also generally want to avoid a state culture covering a huge area outside this maximum, as it aids yet more expansion.
The minimum is the heartland, where the major will always have cores and culture, and on which claiming legitimacy (for others) is tantamount to claiming to be the rightful successor/owner of the whole country.
The ranges don't have to be of the same worth for all countries, as different countries have different tech, rivals, colonial potential and so on. But they do give one measure of which land we expect to be ruled by which power. If any of these seem too large or small, we can change the events and so on appropriately.
For example:
SCOTLAND
Maximum: Scotland, England, Wales, Norway, Iceland, Ulster
Minimum: Strathclyde, Lothian and Northumbria
TEUTONIC ORDER
Maximum: Baltic provinces, Poland, Russian provinces, Finnic 'fringe'
Minimum: Baltic coast from Estland to Prussia
The maximum is the largest area over which the major is 'legitimised' by events granting cores or ceding the provinces. Majors can exceed their maximum, but they won't get events rewarding them further if they do so. We also generally want to avoid a state culture covering a huge area outside this maximum, as it aids yet more expansion.
The minimum is the heartland, where the major will always have cores and culture, and on which claiming legitimacy (for others) is tantamount to claiming to be the rightful successor/owner of the whole country.
The ranges don't have to be of the same worth for all countries, as different countries have different tech, rivals, colonial potential and so on. But they do give one measure of which land we expect to be ruled by which power. If any of these seem too large or small, we can change the events and so on appropriately.
For example:
SCOTLAND
Maximum: Scotland, England, Wales, Norway, Iceland, Ulster
Minimum: Strathclyde, Lothian and Northumbria
TEUTONIC ORDER
Maximum: Baltic provinces, Poland, Russian provinces, Finnic 'fringe'
Minimum: Baltic coast from Estland to Prussia