I'll be incredibly interested in this one since I am actually looking for a q-bam of Europe of year 1620 CE and this is about as close as I've found so far.
Well, much smaller countries have managed to hold much larger ones before (Belgium and the Congo, the Portuguese empire, etc etc.) so Antipodea having control over Majapahit for a brief window of time can make a little bit of sense wherein they claimed it but didn't manage to administer it for...
The Republic of Majapahit
A former territory of Antipodea, Majapahit draws it's name and inspiration from the empire of the same name. Colonized first by the Dutch and then the French after the Thirteen Years War, Majapahit agitated for independence from Antipodea with peaceful protests and...