I understand the reasoning, and if the rest of the world had proportionate populations, I wouldn't give half a hoot, but when everyone else has populations ranging from 1 to 20 million, and nobody's really ever had a population proportionate to land mass and time period, I think that reducing your population is reasonable.
Both ways, thank you for cooperating.
Also, I'm considering letting everyone boost their population by 50% just so that nations do have higher populations within reason and without any huge outliers, or at least nations with a population under 10 or 20 million. Objections?