Vassals glitch

[Venboven 3]

Whenever I release a vassal from the "Release a Vassal" button on my Nation Tab (and it has to be one of the nations already available on the list of nations on the right), the vassal that I release always gets a huge reduction in population. All of the vassal's provinces will drop to around 5,000 population (it varies per province) and I'm not sure why. If I release a vassal that isn't on this list (meaning I click "Select Civilization" to create a brand new country), then the vassal's population will stay intact after it's formed. This is also true when releasing a vassal during a peace deal; The population bug only seems to occur when the vassal is released from the pre-existing vassals list in the "Release a Vassal" button. Does anyone know how to release a pre-existing vassal without "Thanos snapping" its population away?

[tww 53]

lol...mine works normally both...maybe you should start a new game

[Aryan 393]

If your nation was fascist, and a nation was, say communist(or any ideology apart from fascist) and then you annexed them and then release it then they become fascist and the glitch doesn't occur.

But if you annex a nation that was fascist and then release them then this glitch happens. This was just an example and it is true for all ideologies.