Thanks for the feedback! Yeah I realized after that I accidentally created that soft lock problem, sorry 😕. Population I think goes negative because the police can hire from the provinces too with a hidden "loyalist" stat that pulls from the population but is not affected by your follower count. So for instance you can pull 5000 out and the population drops to 1000 but the police might have 5000 loyalists that can still be pulled out and subtracted from the population.