Philippines (Pearl of the Orient)

Philippines is an archipelago country in Southeast Asia, situated in the Western Pacific Ocean. It borders the Maharlikan Federation to the west. The Philippines also shares maritime borders with Taiwan to the north, Japan to the northeast, Vietnam to the west, Palau to the east, and Malaysia and Indonesia to the south.

History
In the mid-2020s, following months of internal conflict first sparked by the Luzon and Visayas protests of 2023, which first demanded the end of the Duterte political dynasty but eventually turned into a secession movement, Sara Duterte signed a peace treaty; allowing major areas of secession (Metro Manila, Cavite, Negros, etc) to break off from the country and form it's independent state, despite opposition from many politicians.