Philippines

The Philippines is an archipelagic nation-state in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean on Earth. Manila is its capital. People or things originating from the Philippines are described as Filipino (Filipina for women).

In the mid-1990s, during the Eugenics Wars, the Philippines was one of many Middle Eastern and Asian countries brought under the influence of Khan Noonien Singh. While the nation had its own internal struggles, there were many cells of resistance extant against the so-called Eugenic supermen. Members of those cells felt that, as they had loosed themselves from Spanish and then American control, they could do so with the latest "set of bullies and tyrants". (: Freedom's Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose)

Among the challenges faced by the nation in the 21st century were the same economic struggles the rest of the world faced, exacerbated by the rise in sea level due to manmade climatic change.

In the 2040s, the Philippines and many other nations ceded their sovereignty to the Eastern Coalition

By the 2060s, the Philippines was among the nations that seceded from the Eastern Coalition to form the short-lived Southeast Asian Confederacy. (Star Trek: Shadowstar Station: "Soledad")

Beginning with the reconstruction period following World War III to the early 23rd century, the Philippines's economy became dependent on tourism, pelagic farms, picotechnological research, and the manufacture of geothermal energy convertors.

But before the country's economy could be stabilized, it went through a period of privation not known since World War II. While environmental damage to the planet was repaired with help from first the Vulcans, then the Centaurans, many Filipinos at home and abroad felt a new start as part of an extrasolar colony or colonies was their best hope.

Esteban Velasco, a Filipino scientist and engineer, was part of an expedition in the 2120s to survey red dwarf stars near the Sol system. That expedition identified deposits of pergium and topaline on the fifth planet of Wolf 359, only eight light-years from Earth. (Star Trek: Shadowstar Station: "Esteban")