Case Blue - Minor Spirit Error

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(Copied and pasted from a Steam forum post I made earlier)

At the end of my soviet turn in a multiplayer game, I received the following error message.

"Error in exec command in event # 26 - Axis Minor : Spirit Change - on line nr # 366"

My opponent told me the game is giving them a message about having over negative 300 prestige, even though that should be quite impossible. It seems they also received a notification that the spirit of the Romanian minor nation had collapsed. However, despite the manual saying this should mean they are removed from the map, their units remain active on the map. It appears something might have gone quite badly wrong with the minor nation spirit system, which is now adversely affecting the German prestige values as well. No political points are being generated, so the German side appears crippled in the long run. Our best guess is that the Romanian spirit has gone crazy, and is saying both that Romania has collapsed AND that it has too high spirit and is thus generating falsely high prestige penalties for not having its own command structure.

The game ended a couple turns later, with the game declaring Soviet Union the winner due to the dismissal rule. That's a lot of time and effort lost to a bug, so I am reporting this in the hopes that it might still find a fix and save someone else from this fate.