[licker]

Heh, hell yah!

If you tax and 200% and patrol to keep unrest down you will lose pop fast. In fact I'm surprised it was only 10% in 25 turns, though you probably didn't have those conditions for the full 25...

A better system to use is to designate a few 5-10k pop provinces as your blood hunting grounds and either patrol or just drop the taxes to zero (or something else low) to curb unrest. Usually wrecking your capitol in the early game is a really bad idea. Over taxing is also a bad long term strategy.