minineuer22

[Your Ideolgy]_drift = 0.03 (this would change it to +0.03 per day)

https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Modifiers - This link will help you a lot

You have to use Ideas to reduce Consumer Goods

For example: 

Cool_Ideas_1 --> consumer_goods_factor = -0.1 (which would make it to -10%)

How much weight do you lay on realism in the mod? From Kaiserreich Lore Writers to Road to 56 to Red Flood, where does your mod fall?

How many alt-history paths are planned, and how close to realism (IRL treaties and movements are they, if there are any)?

https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Puppet

Here are the different levels of autonomy.

Integrated Puppet < Puppet < Colony < Dominion < Independent/Free (For democratic puppets for example)

I tried exporting the mod with the new starting national spirits, however no nation actually ends up having any of them.

The problem seems to be that it doesn't export Prefixes.

Thank you for the great update again!

Your Mods > [Modname] > Countries > The Red Trashcan

I recommend checking if you are deleting the right Country before actaully deleting it.

For Focus Tree you can either put it in Rewards or Effects with:

add_ideas = prefix_cool_idea

remove_ideas = prefix_cool_idea

I have the same problem:

The events are:

poltical.23, poltical.22 and poltical.21 respectively. 

They fire up and neither buttons have effects, only that they fire again every week.