Pilipinas (ᜉᜒᜎᜒᜉᜒᜈᜐ᜔)

Pilipinas or The Philippines (Baybayin text: ᜉᜒᜎᜒᜉᜒᜈᜐ᜔, Tagalog Pilipinas) officially the United Filipino Republic (Tagalog: Nagkakaisang Republikang Pilipino, Sugbuanon: Nagkahiusang Republika sa Pilipino) is a state in the Centerworld of Hikto, having the Zirit F.S of the USSFS as a neighbor to its northwest. The player is Angrybalut898.

The nation encompasses the entire Philippine archipelago as well as the Papuan islands and northern Australia, with a multitude of ethnic groups coexisting under a unicameral parliamentary government.

Early pioneers from Zirit, Kinami and Rome all flocked to the newfound lands once they were discovered by Roman explorers in 1506. The intermarriage between them and the locals formed a unique culture, and, with Christianity rising as a major religion, added more to the culture, resulting in a vibrant cultural melting pot that affects the Philippine business and political scene to this day. The colonists, along with the natives, formed several kingdoms in the time span of the 16th to 19th centuries, most notably Maynila and Sugbu. The states met in Dabaw in 1855 in an event known today as the Unification Congress, where the delegates and leaders of the nations concerned in the congress agreed to unite, forming the Kingdom of Pilipinas, later to be replaced by the Republic in 1920. Only one president ruled from 1920-1938, Manuel Keson, who was a Nationalist with good intentions, but his failure to be capable of decision making ultimately destroyed the country, despite the acquisition of East Nusa Tenggara (1928), Papua (1931) and northern Australia (1935). Due to his incapability to provide for his people decent growth, the True Democracy Front was formed by civilians and soldiers alike to bring down Keson. They seized Naga in 1936, leading to a civil war that lasted up to 1948, when Keson fled for Atlontia. A new constitution was drafted and accepted, and followed with the election of Manuelito Roxas in 1949. Economic and social reforms in the 50's paved way for long term economic growth. Federalization was implemented in 1960, allowing for localized growth. The presidential crises that followed Diosdado Macapagal's resignation led to widespread violence and protest, forcing an Arztotzkan intervention, severely damaging government centers.

Prehistory
There is evidence of early hominids living in what is now Pilipinas as early as 709,000 years ago. The oldest modern human remains found on the islands is the Tabon Man of Pajalwan, carbon-dated to 47,000 ± 11–10,000 years ago. The Tabon man is presumably a Maitum, who were among the archipelago's earliest inhabitants, descendants of the first human migrations out of Africa via the coastal route along southern Asia to the now sunken landmasses of Sundaland and Sahul.

The first Austronesians reached the Philippines at around 2200 BC, settling the Ibatan Islands and northern Luzon. From there, they rapidly spread downwards to the rest of the islands of Pilipinas and Southeast Asia. They assimilated earlier Australo-Melanesian groups (the Maitum) which arrived during the Paleolithic, resulting in the modern Philippine ethnic groups which display various ratios of genetic admixture between Austronesian and Maitum groups. By 1000 BC, the inhabitants of the archipelago had developed into four kinds of social groups: hunter-gatherer tribes, warrior societies, highland plutocracies, and port principalities.

Precolonial period (604-1506)
The earliest surviving records in Pilipinas are the Sugbu Scrolls, a series of 10 scrolls documenting monetary transactions between a merchant from Mabutu (Masbate) and a tax collector. By the 10th century, most coastal settlements were fully-fledged cities, complete with grids and districts. Since Zirit was in close proximity to the islands, ships from the islands would often come to the southern ports and trade.

Society at the time was mostly made up of 3 social structures: nobility, freemen and slaves. Nobility were natives of royal blood, freemen were local merchants, policing officers, and others that were native in the kingdom, and slaves were more treated like glorified peasants than servants, allowed to buy houses, intermarry, and own jewelry.

16th and 17th centuries
In 1506, a Roman explorer only known by his first name, Philippus, discovered the islands after initially trying to find a new route to Zirit. He instead discovered a set of archipelagos and gave it the name "Philipinius", after his first name. Not much is known about him, only the fact that the basis for naming the islands was his name, and that he was a Roman sailor. There are no records of him claiming them for any country. An influx of colonizers arrived in the region after the discovery, and soon they set up small port states to rival the already-settled native states. Interbreeding generated a mixed lineage of both native, Ziritian, Kinamian, and Roman peoples called pinaghalo. While natives were generally dark or brown-skinned, the pinaghalo were mostly lighter-skinned. By the 1600s, there were about 600 states in the islands.