So, in case you don't know yet, Since 1.16, there are States and Territories.

Territories give a minimum 75% Local Autonomy (LA) but you only need to core it with 50% admin point cost.
Apparently, the higher the LA, the lower the province gives you (tax, production, manpower, and certain % of the Trade Power), 100% Autonomy gives you Absolutely Nothing

Here is the problem, if you conquer a province (75% LA) and everyone knows you have to increase autonomy for that -10 unrest; unless you want rebels everywhere, then the province gets up to 100% LA and it becomes completely useless;
Unless you make it a State, which gives you 50%/0% LA Floor, then the province becomes "less" useless.

But apparently there are times you expand too much and run out of States to make your provinces States.... :/
But 100% LA is brutal, Don't want to WASTE what you spill blood conquered?? Read on.

If you intend to keep an area territory anyway but dont want 100% autonomy, use this trick.

Follow these steps:
1) Core the 1st half - Reduce Overextension; DO NOT raise LA yet.
2) Got a territorial core? Now click "Make it a State" - DO NOT core the 2nd half
3) Now by making it a State it goes down to 50% LA (Unless the province already have much higher LA before conquering)
4) Raise Autonomy for that -10 Unrest
5) Click "Abandon State", it goes back to being a Territory and 75% LA
6) Congratulation, now you cored with half admin price but still get 25% of stuff out of it with zero unrest.

In short, you LOSE NOTHING but GOT -10 UNREST.
That is, assuming you are not stupid enough to core the 2nd half.
Now you cored a province with 50% Adm Cost, Got 25% value out of it and -10 Unrest

This is VERY useful in a WC, Espically hordes get NO autonomy reduction at all from their government type and you are always at war.
Even if you core it fully, it goes down to 50% LA, you raise it for -10 Unrest, it goes back to 75% LA; then what's the point of making it a state then? You get the same LA as a Territory.
as I just did a World Conquest with Kazan, it makes no sense to waste your admin points to make state except for high manpower provinces you can squeeze with your Tribe Estate, save your admin for tech.

With this trick, (obviously I used it) having 25% of the world is a huge boost of money & manpower compared to 100% of Nothing.

Thanks for reading!
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