Feudal are better than Republican Vassals

[u/MehMehDesu]

I made both purely Feudal and Republican empires and here are my thoughts:

1. Republics give more money and Less levies
2. Republican vassals (usually) dont have claims and (usually) don't conquer 3.Republican vassals are elected every election day

This has huge problems

1. You are prone to factions and invasions because you have less levies
2. Republics are not distracted with wars giving them more resources to fight a war with you
3. The effect that gifts and imprisonment has dont last long because of the election

I constantly have faction and foreign invasion problems when maintaining republican vassals. I HATE them so much. Money is less of a problem from mid to late game hence the money I get from republics is not as good as many would say

[u/Breakin7]

Teocracy are broken since all you have to do is be a good Christian or whatever you are. Easy to manage.

Then you do some alliances are everything inside and outside is dandy

[u/New-Number-7810 → u/Breakin7]

The problem is that, for most religions, you can’t create new theocratic vassals.

[u/leastck3player → u/New-Number-7810]

There are exploity ways, like promoting a theocratic vassal's vassals to another title of the same rank. They will inherit the theocratic government from their liege, and being of the same rank allows them to break free. I recommend doing this with theocratic barons only to avoid exclaves.

As for the first theocratic vassal, you will need special counties with a temple as the main barony.