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A gold bonus? I didn't see any gold bonus playing ermor. I've 200% tax (and high patroller) in home and ~110% taxes in other provinces and sometimes higher with patrollers, its all totally normal. Income is going down very fast with every point of dominion killing your people.

Look at the graphs. Did you see any bonus?

I'm not sure about die rate of population, maybe they die a little slower then in dom2.
But income/resources got a huge increase in dom3 overall and ermor do benefit from that only a small fraction (at the start of the game). So this could be a small compensation.