I'm wondering... If I'm building a new country as a casher then how do I get my food when everyone is still under protection and there's no food on the public market? Is it worth buying in the private market or should I just wait for it to be on the public market?

You build about 20 farms. Or 100 farms. The food production usually lets you sell the excess food to the private market (at $29, no commission) and that money is used to build other things, usually to 2k land.

Tear it down later after you exit protection and no longer need the farms.

thanks very much

Side note: if they ever fixed the help forums, the ones where you upload status updates for ppl to see and help then you could get more detailed descriptions on how to's and what not.. but i dont think they have fixed them yet