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===Geography===
[[File:Valmae River meets Concordia Ocean.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Valmae River meets the Concordian Ocean]]
Kasmiyland is located in central Gondwana, as a result of its equatorial location, Kasmiyland experiences high precipitation and has one of the highest frequency of thunderstorms in the world. The annual rainfall can total upwards of 3,600 millimeters in some places, and the area sustains the Valmae Rainforest, one of the rain forest in the world. This massive expanse of lush jungle covers most of the vast, low-lying central basin of the Valame river, which slopes toward the Concordia Ocean in the west. This area is surrounded by plateaus merging into savannas in the North and Northwest, by mountainous terraces in the east, and dense grasslands extending beyond the Congo River in the north. High, glaciated mountains are found in the eastern region as well.
The tropical climate also produced the Valmae River system which dominates the region topographically along with the rainforest it flows through, though they are not mutually exclusive. The river basin occupies nearly the entire country. The river and its tributaries form the backbone of Kasmish economics and transportation. Major tributaries include the Shema, SUkun, Ugika, Naroma, and Bompas. The Nuri valley has exposed an enormous amount of mineral wealth throughout the south and east of the Valame, making it accessible to mining. Cobalt, copper, cadmium, industrial and gem-quality diamonds, gold, silver, zinc, manganese, tin, germanium, uranium, radium, bauxite, iron ore, and coal are all found in plentiful supply.
'''Enviromental Importance to Urth'''
The Valame forest is an important biodiversity hotspot. It is home to okapi, bonobo and the Kasmish peafowl, but is also an important source of Gondwanan teak, used for building furniture and flooring. An estimated 5 million people depend on these woodlands, surviving on traditional livelihoods. At a global level, Kasmiyland forests act as one of the planet's lungs. They are a huge "carbon sink," trapping carbon that could otherwise become carbon dioxide, the main cause of global warming. These forests also affect rainfall across Central Concordian. In other words, these distant forests are crucial to the future of climate stability, a bulwark against runaway climate change.
A moratorium on logging in the Kasmish forest was agreed in May 1995. Putting an end to many companies only allowing ten to log a limited amount of wood at a time a year, while also having them invest in environmentally friendly programs.
[[File:Hecklon Python.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Hecklon Python on a Tree in the eastern Valmae Rainforest]]
The government has written a new forestry code that requires companies to invest in local development and follow a sustainable, twenty-five-year cycle of rotational logging. When a company is granted a concession from the central government to log in Kasmiyland, it must sign an agreement with the local governments and residents, who give permission for it to extract the trees in return for development packages. In theory, the companies must pay the government nearly $178m rent a year for these concessions, of which 40% in taxes paid should be returned to provincial governments for investment in the social development of the local population in the logged areas.
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