@ncscswitch:
I have always played (going back to Classic) that the money evaporates.
The rules are explicit that you cannot collect income when you do not have a capital. It does not specify only territory value income, it is just plain INCOME, which to me (and everyone I ever gamed with) was ALL income.
So the USSR treasury is plundered, but there is no place to send the cash to, so it is “lost”
You can not collect INCOME, you can however plunder others IPCs.
They are NOT the same. You get a paycheck based on the territories you own (or the 40 hours you put in a week), if you find a stach of cash (like a $100 on the street), that’s not income and you can keep it
You hold these IPCs until your capital is liberated