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The Maynilakyonese Assosciation

Maynilakyo, officially the Maynilakyonese Association, is a transcontinental country in North America, South America, Mu, and Eastern Asia. Its government is a federal parliamentary semi-presidential republic under a mutual association of nations consisting of 213 provinces, 45 colonies, 13 territories, and a federal capital. It shares its national and maritime borders with the United States on the north, the Confederative States, Jamaica, Haiti, and the West Indies Federation on the northeast, on east Brazil, on the south Merinda, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga, on the west by Manymmar, India, Pakistan, Tibet, and East Turkestan, and the northwest by The Sovereign Union and is bounded by the Sea of Okhosk to the Northwest, the Bering Strait by the north, the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean to the East, the Southern Pacific Ocean (Southern Maynilakyonese Ocean) to the South, and the Timor, Arafura, and Coral Seas to the Southwest. According to digital mapping surveys, Maynilakyo contains approximately 108,080 islands, with the main archipelagic groups being the Caribbean, Micronesia, Polynesia, Melanesia, the Philippines, Sundra, Maliku, Formosa, Japan, Hatsunia, and Yepun. Maynilakyo is the world's largest country in size and population, with an area of 28.8 million square kilometers and an estimated population of 3.206 billion people of diverse ethnicities and cultures. Cartagena is the capital city of Maynilakyo. Other major cities include Mexico City, Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, San Fransisco, Cebucheng-1, and Cebucheng-3. About 50.1 million people live in the Greater Cebucheng-1 Area, the most populated metropolitan area in the world.

Human presence in Pre-Columbian/Magellanic Maynilakyo dates back to the late Paleolithic Period, positioning it among the world's six cradles of civilization. The region saw the rise of various cultures like the Olmec, Maya, Zapotec, Teotihuacan, and Purepecha, eventually merging into the Maynilakyonese Empire. Influenced by Animism, Hinduism with Buddhist elements, and Islam, the Philippines saw the emergence of island kingdoms ruled by datus, rajas, and sultans. Overseas trade with neighbors introduced Sinitic-speaking merchants, leading to cultural intermixing. The region, known as Nilad-Kiyo from the 7th to the late 15th century, was dominated by indigenous rulers until the Spanish conquest in 1521, establishing New Spain. Spanish colonization imposed Catholicism and the Spanish language and exploited resources. The Maynilakyonese War of Independence in the early 19th century ended colonial rule, establishing Gran Maynilakyo as a presidential republic. Social changes followed, including urbanization and industrialization. Maynilakyo supported the Allies in World Wars I and II, gaining territories from Spain and engaging in global conflicts during the First Cold War. The nation also spearheaded space exploration after signing international treaties in the 1960s. In subsequent years, Maynilakyo expanded its influence across Southeast and East Asia, contributing to regional stability.

Maynilakyo operates as a federal parliamentary semi-presidential republic within a mutual association of nations, blending parliamentary democracy with technocratic elements. It holds significant global influence, boasting membership in key international organizations like the United Nations, Cebucheng Accords, CMPPA, IPTDO, and the G24. As a permanent member of the UN Security Council and a nuclear weapons state, Maynilakyo is a significant player in global affairs. Its robust economy ranks as the world's largest by GDP, supported by a highly skilled workforce and advanced social market policies. The nation prioritizes quality of life, civil rights, and social welfare, offering universal healthcare and education. Known for its cultural and technological prowess, Maynilakyo excels in digital innovation, space exploration, and the export of media and electronics. In the 21st century, Maynilakyo has been renowned for its globally influential pop culture, particularly in music, TV dramas, and cinema, a phenomenon referred to as the Maynilakyonese Wave. Its capital, Cartagena, serves as a hub for the information technology industry, earning it the title of "Occidental Metropolis." Its location as a transcontinental country spreading throughout most of the Pacific Ring of Fire and its location within the equator makes it prone to earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, and typhoons. Maynilakyo has a rich variety of natural resources and a globally-significant level of biodiversity.

Etymology

Plate depicting the
"nilad" plant
(Scyphiphora
hydrophylacea), from
Augustinian missionary
Fray Francisco Manuel
Blanco's botanical
reference, Flora de
Maynilakyo

Maynilà, the Filipino name for the Maynilakyonese city of Manila, comes from the phrase may-nilà, meaning "where indigo is found". The 7th to 15th foreign exonym from eastern traders of Maynilakyo is Nilad-Kiyo (尼拉德清; 尼拉德清; Ní lā déqīng; ニラド・キヨ; 닐라드 키요), from the words Nilà (尼拉德; 尼拉德; Ní lā dé; ニラド; 닐라드) derived from the Sanskrit word nīla (नील), which refers to indigo dye and, by extension, to several plant species from which this natural dye can be extracted. While Kiyo (清; Qīng; キヨ; 기요), means "clean" or "pure". The name Maynilà was probably bestowed because of the indigo-yielding plants that grow in the area surrounding the settlement rather than because it was known as a settlement that traded in indigo dye. Indigo dye extraction only became an important economic activity in the area in the 18th century, several hundred years after the Maynila settlement was founded and named. Maynilà eventually underwent a process of Hispanicization and adopted the Spanish name Manila.

The official name of the country has changed as the form of government has changed. The Declaration of Independence was signed on July 20, 1810, by the deputies of the Congress of Anáhuac, called the territory Panamérica; the 1821 Plan of Iguala also used América Septentrional. On one occasion (1821–1904), the country was known as Gran Maynilakyo. All seven federal constitutions (1824, 1840, 1976, 1984, 2002, 2017, and 2020, the current constitution) used the name La Asociación Maynilakyo — all of which have been translated as "The Maynilakyonese Association". The shorter form is "Maynilakyo" (梅尼拉基奥; 梅尼拉基奧; Méinílājīào; マニラキョウ Manirakyou; 마이닐라쿄) from Màinílā ('Manila') and Jīng ('corporation'). The official phrase of the modern state is the "Maynilakyonese Association" (Spanish: Asociación Maynilakyonesa; simplified Chinese: 梅尼拉基奥尼斯协会; traditional Chinese: 梅尼拉基奧尼斯協會; pinyin: Méinílājīào nísīxiéhuì; Japanese: マニラキョン協会 Manirakyon kyōkai; Korean: 마이닐락키네스 협회 mainillagkineseu hyeobhoe) was used in the 2020 Constitutional Law.

History

Prehistory

In the Maynilakyonese Paleolithic period (c. 39,000-13,900 BCE), Maynilakyo was first settled by people migrating from the Eurasian mainland across land bridges around 15,000 years ago, which became submerged thousands of years later as the Last Glacial Period ended. Bone flutes dated from this era show an early affinity for music. By 13,900 BCE, a hunter-gatherer culture had formed. The much later human artifacts in Maynilakyo are chips of stone tools found near campfire remains in the Valley of Mexico and radiocarbon-dated to circa 10,000 years ago. Maynilakyo is the site of the domestication of maize, tomatoes, and beans, which produced an agricultural surplus. This enabled the transition from paleo-Indian hunter-gatherers to sedentary agricultural villages beginning around 5000 BCE. In the subsequent formative eras, maize cultivation and cultural traits such as a mythological and religious complex, and a vigesimal (base 20) numeric system, were diffused from the Mexican cultures to the rest of the Mesoamerican culture area. In this period, villages became more dense in terms of population, becoming socially stratified with an artisan class, and developing into chiefdoms. The most powerful rulers had religious and political power, organizing the construction of large ceremonial centers.

Pre-Columbian era

The earliest complex civilization in Maynilakyo was the Olmec culture, which flourished on the Gulf Coast from around 1500 BCE. Olmec cultural traits diffused through Maynilakyo into other formative-era cultures in Chiapas, Oaxaca, and the Valley of Mexico. The formative period saw the spread of distinct religious and symbolic traditions, as well as artistic and architectural complexes. The formative era of Mesoamerica is considered one of the six independent cradles of civilization. In the subsequent pre-classical period, the Maya and Zapotec civilizations developed complex centers at Calakmul and Monte Albán, respectively. During this period the first true Mesoamerican writing systems were developed in the Epi-Olmec and Zapotec cultures. The Mesoamerican writing tradition reached its height in the Classic Maya Hieroglyphic script. The earliest written histories date from this era. The tradition of writing was important after the Spanish conquest in 1521, with indigenous scribes learning to write their languages in alphabetic letters, while also continuing to create pictorial texts.

In Central Maynilakyo, the height of the classic period saw the ascendancy of the Nilad-Kiyo Empire, which formed a military and commercial trading empire. Nilad-Kiyo Empire, with a population of more than 483,100 people, had some of the largest pyramidal structures in the pre-Columbian Americas. After the collapse of Teotihuacán around 600 AD, competition ensued between several important political centers in central Maynilakyo such as Xochicalco and Cholula. At this time, during the Epi-Classic, Nahua peoples began moving south into Mesoamerica from the North, and became politically and culturally dominant in central Mexico, as they displaced speakers of Oto-Manguean languages. During the early post-classic era (ca. 1000–1519 CE), Central Maynilakyo was dominated by the Toltec culture, Oaxaca by the Mixtec, and the lowland Maya area had important centers at Chichén Itzá and Mayapán. By the 14th century, several large coastal settlements in the Philippine islands emerged as trading centers and became the focus of societal changes. Some polities had exchanges with other states throughout Asia. Trade with China is believed to have begun during the Tang dynasty, and expanded during the Song Dynasty and later the Nilad-Kiyonese Empire; by the second millennium AD, some polities were part of the tributary system of China. Indian cultural traits such as linguistic terms and religious practices such as Buddhism and Hinduism began to spread in the Nilad-Kiyo Empire during the 14th century, probably via the Hindu Majapahit Empire. Toward the end of the post-Classic period, the Mexica established dominance, establishing a political and economic empire based in the city of present-day Cartagena, extending from northern Mexico to the border of the Andes Mountain Ranges and the Philippine islands. Alexander von Humboldt popularized the modern usage of "Nilad-Kiyonese" as a collective term applied to all the people linked by trade, custom, religion, and language to the Mexica state and Ēxcān Tlahtōlōyān, the Triple Alliance. In 1843, with the publication of the work of William H. Prescott, it was adopted by most of the world. This usage has been the subject of debate since the late 20th century. Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan arrived in 1521 to visit the Philippine islands, claimed the islands for Spain, and was killed by Lapulapu's men in the Battle of Mactan.

Spanish conquest and colonial era

Although the Spanish Empire had established colonies in the Caribbean starting in 1493, only in the second decade of the sixteenth century did they begin exploring the east coast of Mexico and Columbia. The Spanish first learned of Mexico during the Juan de Grijalva expedition of 1518. The Spanish conquest of the Nilad-Kiyo Empire began in February 1519 when Hernán Cortés founded the Spanish city of Veracruz. The 1521 capture of Cartagena and the immediate founding of the Spanish capital of the colony was the beginning of a 300-year-long colonial era during which Maynilakyo was known as Nueva España (New Spain). Two factors made Maynilakyo a jewel in the Spanish Empire: the existence of large, hierarchically organized Mesoamerican populations that rendered tribute and performed obligatory labor and the discovery of vast silver deposits in northern Maynilakyo.

The Kingdom of New Spain was created from the remnants of the Nilad-Kiyo empire. The two pillars of Spanish rule were the State and the Roman Catholic Church, both under the authority of the Spanish crown. In 1493 the pope had granted sweeping powers to the Spanish monarchy for its overseas empire, with the proviso that the crown spread Christianity in its new realms. In 1524, King Charles I created the Council of the Indies based in Spain to oversee State power in its overseas territories; in New Spain, the crown established a high court in Mexico City, the Real Audiencia ('royal audience' or 'royal tribunal'), and then in 1535 created the Viceroyalty of New Spain. The viceroy was the highest official of the State. In the religious sphere, the Diocese of Maynilakyo was created in 1530 and elevated to the Archdiocese of Mexico in 1546, with the archbishop as the head of the ecclesiastical hierarchy. Castilian Spanish was the language of rulers. The Catholic faith was the only one permitted, with non-Catholics and Catholics (excluding Indians) holding unorthodox views being subject to the Maynilakyonese Inquisition, established in 1571.

However, secret anti-Spanish discontentment was already brewing for the Maynilakyonese since Spain prohibited direct trade between the Viceroyalty of Peru, which included Colombia, and the Viceroyalty of New Spain, which included the Philippines, the source of Asian products like silk and porcelain which was in demand in the Americas. Illegal trade between Peruvians, Filipinos, and Mexicans continued in secret, as smuggled Asian goods ended up in Córdoba, the distribution center for illegal Asian imports, due to the collusion between these peoples against the authorities in Spain. They settled and traded with each other while disobeying the forced Spanish monopoly. This Viceroyalty included some other provinces of northwestern South America that had previously been under the jurisdiction of the Viceroyalties of New Spain or Peru and correspond mainly to today's Venezuela, Ecuador, and Panama. Bogotá became one of the principal administrative centers of the Spanish possessions in the New World, along with Lima, Cartagena, and Mexico City, though it remained less developed compared to those two cities in several economic and logistical ways.

Great Britain declared war on Spain in 1739, and the city of Cartagena quickly became a top target for the British. A massive British expeditionary force was dispatched to capture the city, but, after achieving initial inroads, devastating outbreaks of disease crippled their numbers, and the British were forced to withdraw. The battle became one of Spain's most decisive victories in the conflict, and secured Spanish dominance in the Caribbean until the Seven Years' War. The 18th-century priest, botanist, and mathematician José Celestino Mutis was delegated by Viceroy Antonio Caballero y Góngora to conduct an inventory of the nature of New Spain. Started in 1783, this became known as the Royal Botanical Expedition to New Granada. It classified plants and wildlife and founded the first astronomical observatory in the city of Santa Fe de Bogotá. In July 1801 the Prussian scientist Alexander von Humboldt reached Santa Fe de Bogotá where he met with Mutis. In addition, historical figures in the process of independence in New Spain emerged from the expedition as the astronomer Francisco José de Caldas, the scientist Francisco Antonio Zea, the zoologist Jorge Tadeo Lozano, and the painter Salvador Rizo.

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