How to make people angry?

[Ironside]

The king on the other side of the map involves cutting off the ship lines as well. 0 dread governour with high/low piety depending on the province zeal (high zeal provinces doesn't like low piety governours and reversed).

If your empire is big, then attacking with your king or stuck him on Ireland without naval contact works well on a empire level, but doing that makes the question more of what provinces you don't want to rebel, and garnison them properly.

[Karl08]

So you're not going for "Stazi the Benevolent", then?

[Axalon]

How to make people angry?

Besides what already been said by the others, you can develop especially unpopular governors with popularity penalties to some -50% by just executing rebels over and over again (in within his province). I think that would count here. Scotland and Portugal for instance are good provinces for such purposes – in raw MTW (Redux has a lot more instability all over the map).

Then there are various random vices with some -20-30% popularity penalties as well.

So in theory and some effort it is very possible to appoint governors with up -70% or -80% popularity penalties and that would probably make the populous angry enough I think….

However, in extreme theory it is actually possible to get as low as -110% or -120% happiness if we throw in a “Assassinator” vice as well (attainable by some 6 failed Spy-trials on the same general). Still I wonder if that is truly useful as his loyalty will be 0 as a result (some -11 loyalty in total I think). Now that should make even the usually gentle populous of raw MTW raving mad - no matter what…

- A