About Usame, and why coffee is not planted there

Coffee is not planted in Usame because the forest is sacred, and thick. Trees can not be cut, and so there would be no room for crops. Usameans are very ecological.

There are plenty of animals, precious stones, minerals, clay, and Usameans are very industrious: they manufacture all kinds of clothes, weapons, figurines, metal appliances, bricks, clay pottery, etc. They build stone and brick houses, temples and pyramids. Wood is only used for boats, canoes and roof tops.

They eat meat, fish, sea-food, coconuts, and fruit from their own island. Vegetables, cereals, coffee, sugar cane and cotton are grown in the surrounding islands. Usameans trade all the staples against their manufactured products.

Usameans were already a civilized nation when they conquered Usame. They used to be farmers in their original island--which is now one of their farming colonies--but they adopted the myths of the previous inhabitants, which encourage to preserve the forest as a sacred being.

Usame is a very large island. The surrounding islands are quite smaller.