Damn it, you beat me to it! :)
I was planning to abuse this loophole since I saw the proposal!

I don’t see why we should be punished for doing what this game should encourage, though, so .

If anyone would care to post a proposal in which my hostile takeover is simply prevented instead of punished, I would be happy to vote for it.

You can still move your population out of the country before it happens, so I don’t see it as much of a penalty.  Honestly, you can probably breed more people than you’ll lose.

It was intended as a punishment to avoid complicated effects (someone controlled the territory for some amount of time, so they get resources, but then they lose the control, what if they start building on the territory before they lose control, etc.) if this proposal takes longer than 3 days.

I’ll be happy to rewrite it as a non-punishment if Chronos is willing to keep track of the complications involved.

This proposal CAN’T last 3 days since it could be enacted after 48 hours. I also don’t see what complications could be created, since in the event this proposal somehow doesn’t get enacted in 3 days, chronos would probably enact proposals before he’d post a new market position, which is the only time controlling another territoty matters at the moment.

By the way, I’m more concerned for the 30 petroleum I invested in bacon than for the 10 population I’d lose.

Backwards punishment is a Bad Thing.

(Redundant, admittedly).
Exploiting loopholes is what this game is about, mostly.  While closing loopholes as fast as possible is a good thing, retroactive punishment is… poor.

Oh, and Spell My Name Right