Minauros — the products of the Flesh Fields

Minaurian people have many unpleasant stereotypes attached to them by the other Infernal Nations: they are gross, easily conned out of their money, and always think about sex.
But there is also a positive prejudice with a surprisingly concrete foundation: Minaurians are incredibly attractive.
People from Minauros tend to be tall, toned, and with harmonious bodies: men sport large shoulders and beefy arms, and women have generous curves. The main reason for this diffuse “prettiness” is a diet rich in meat and fats, so commonplace even the lowest peasant is well fed as a noble.

The Flesh Fields are a resource but not an easy one to exploit.
First, there are ethical and metaphysical questions: are the Flesh Fields a person?
Saint Moloch, the archdevil that ruled the land, clearly and definitively stated that the Fields have no soul or mind, and nobody would dare to question such high authority. But, are the body parts that make up the Fields human (and humanoid) body parts? After complex theological debates in the first and second centuries, the answer was yes. This statement meant that eating the meat of the land was equivalent to cannibalism and, therefore, a major sin. In the following centuries, the question was reevaluated time and time again, after pressures from Minauros nobles eager to make their otherwise useless land profitable. Council after council, there were added exceptions and caveats to the use of the Flesh Fields, in part result of genuine theological reasoning, and other times out of bribery.

People cannot eat the flesh of the Fields if it is recognizable what part of the body it is. If the meat comes from an undefined area without apparent correspondence to a body part, then it’s edible. Still, it can’t be ingested, and it is consequently used to make things like broth, where the meat itself is not actually eaten.
Fat can be used to fry, as it is categorized as a medium for cooking and not a food in itself.
But the more crucial exception has been made for the Carnations. The Flesh Fields can “die” in some zones, due to illness, wounds, and possibly old age (a contentious topic). What remains are the skeletal trees and other bone structures.
The land will regrow onto these “skeletal ruins”: blood vessels come out of the skin, crawling on the bones like vines. These “vines” then “bloom” into “flowers of flesh”, the Carnations: folds of meat made of undifferentiated tissue that, eventually, will become a limb or an organ. Since they are not human flesh yet, just the “prototype” of flesh, they are permitted as food. They are also delicious and nutritious, a real delicacy (if one forgets their grotesque origin).

The second big problem to take advantage of the flesh field is its nature.
The land is alive, and it moves: to build a house is impractical as it is like building on a perpetually seismic place. The flesh does have reflexes, cramps, and spasms, subjecting the already wobbly ground to frequent and unpredictable tremors. Some areas, like the skeletal ruins or more solid parts like cranial bones, are usually wide enough for a shack or a cabin, provisional shelters for travelers.
People who work the Flesh Fileds live in the bordering region, the Scar Lands (often called just the Scar). The Scar Lands are called so because they have been reclaimed from the fields and have strips of actual scar tissue running through the towns and villages. This means the laborers have to travel to places where they work extracting fat or harvesting carnations, adding a commute to the already hard days. Despite the distance, the people living on the scar receive most of the unpleasantness of the area, with constant foul smells and clouds of buzzing insects coming and going. With the “right” wind, the scent can reach hundreds of miles away, especially in summer, when all the land sweats.
The resources of the flesh fields have to be extracted timely: Carnations have to be picked before they become a definite organ, and have to be consumed quickly, as they spoil rather fast.
Extracting fat and other big tissues may cause the zone to “die” causing to frantically accelerate the operations before all the area starts to rot.
Furthermore, some places change shape, like the land is turning around pieces of itself looking for more comfortable positions: a hill may contain an articulation making it rise or lower. Other places change in substance: if a zone dies it can regrow as a different tissue or organ, with dead ribcage starting to grow fingers or eyes.

The mutable essence of the Fields leads to the third problem: the marketability of the products. Food is just one of the many goods originating from the Fields: skin is tanned to make leather; teeth are used as ivory; blood, bones, and wastes are turned into fertilizers; organs and fluids are sold to alchemists and wizards; hair becomes ropes; fat can become soap or lamp fuel; the occasional patch of felinar or lepin land can be strip for fur. While there is always something coming out of the Fields, the quality and quantity of it can vary drastically year by year: after a harsh winter where many zones have died from the cold, the landscape can be unrecognizable by the summer, with all the new tissue colonizing the skeletal ruins. This created a problem for the creation of sizable industries. The territories near the Scar need to be able to process whatever comes their way, and scaling up and specializing enterprises can be easily halted by a couple of bad seasons in a row.
Prices, availability, and quality of processed goods vary widely and quickly, inevitably the merchants of other nations come to Mianuros for bargains and occasions and not for stable trade relationships. The economy is therefore quite close, with most trading happening inside the borders.
International commerce is also hampered by cultural and psychological factors: most of the Flesh Fields products are just gross for most people. Even if the scale of some of the parts is unnatural, knowing the origin just triggers a sense of disgust in most people: who would wear armor made of human skin, even if clearly thick like the hide of an ox? Would you wear a shirt of hair even if the threads are long and thick like silk? Would you use a fork that has a miniature femur for a handle?

To make people use products of the Flesh Fields they had to be convenient and high quality enough to make their origin an afterthought, and that happened only in recent times. A good deal can make you forget a lot.