As Les Imperaux expanded its control over the region around Ciudad Victoria it had a larger population it suddenly had to feed and care for, something that it wasn't prepared for. Thus they fiananced several "Olive and Grain" colonies with the expressed purpose of growing food to be shipped back to the home territories. To that end they have struggled, they barely scrapped by with crop quotas, and has to deal with attacks by jealous rivals and greedy Land baron, Mack Langley.