As Jammi said, if you look through the rules there looks to be nothing broken.
The Liberty and Bretonian government are just being greedy and wanting a sum of money to let it remain, if you cannot pay it off then it will be destroyed. There really is not much you can do about it other then paying the money. Its a legitimate Roleplay claim since they are the government. Some people may not find it fair inRP of course, yet it still stands.
