And you end up with situations like in Kindara, where a Duchess is apparently logging in enough to not auto-pause, but refuses to answer messages or appoint a lord to one of her rurals for more than a month. There's 1000 bushels of food stuck in that rural with no way to get it out while her city starves, and the duchess can't even be banned because she's a royal.
First: Sounds like a pretty sucky situation.
Second: Sounds like a self-correcting problem. If the city is starving, it will eventually revolt and kick out the duchess. Then, if the ruler is smart, they will give it to someone else.
Third: If you can't ban, then start using other methods to get her out. Get the other lords to stop selling food to the city. Place heavy fines on the duchess. Send in the assassins. Send the banker to cook the books.
