The archipelago is a sailor's paradise.

Bienenhalde

Bienenhalde

Water transport is so common,
most cities have canals.

Bienenhalde

A wonderful land of wonderful people.

There is a price for all the good health, roaring industries, cheap elctricity, and good welfare and education policies, in that San Kalungsod Saludong is in the top 10 percent of nations having abnormally high tax-rates. In this sense, it is less like a tropical nation and more like a follower of Nordic-Socialist policies, where the government rigurously taxes the citizens, almost to death, but at the same time, provide, often for free; insurance, schooling, hospitalization, employment, construction and business services. Over time, however, the government is slowly reducing its' dependence on taxing the populace by introducing Value Added Tax and venturing into the business of Sovereign Wealth Funds, where they can earn money abroad, among which the government has liberal investments at our Tourism sectors in the Principality of Bienenhalde and Markanite, the Cheeze and Dairy Industry of Free Las Pinas, the Defense Industry of Kanta Hame, the Mining Sector of Woonsocket, the Publishing Industry of Jabberwocky, and even though the nation locally bans drugs, has liberal investments in Echolilia's Recreational Drugs Party Scene.

Pleasantly, though the average work-day is short here and not taxing since the country is extremely digitized, as High Technology Industries are very well developed and thus, most manual labor has been delegated to robots and AI, therefore the ordinary person spends a good percentage of their time, in leisure; reading (they have a very large publishing industry), exercising, engaging in sports, or playing music and pursuing cultural escapades, a very different environment to our stern work, work, work mindset. Except for the daily business of commerce and war (let’s not forget that the nation is a Military Order), almost everyday is a party! And now if you don’t mind, I have to practice my Kareoke and Limbo skills!

Formative Period

According to legend…

The first Diwata, Kandarapa descended from heaven and she created the archipelago called Magandang Islas in the middle of the Serene Ocean, full of virgin islands. However, because it was at the center of an Ocean with many lands surrounding it, it soon became known as the “Contested Archipelago” by later settlers who waged wars over it.

In the actual history, 5000 years before present, the islands were not islands but were actually a landmass, one big continent called Zunda, the aboriginal peoples, Negritos who were black-skinned, settled across the land and these were followed by a then unknown and advanced civilization (who were the ancestors of 10000 Islands' Aquamen and Aquawomen) whose experiments caused a catastrophic explosion of a megavolcano that flooded and submerged the landmass in rising sea levels as their civilization adapted to their inundated cities. Only the mountains of the submerged continent remain and that became the archipelago while the civilization of these precursors were utterly erased from the surface.

The Contested Archipelago

The Contested Archipelago is the main territory of the state of San Kalungsod Saludong, it is home to the Precursor Civilization of Aquamen, the aboriginal Negritos who are older, and later, several native island kingdoms which were founded after the inundation. It is a vast and rich archipelago that's larger than the original homeland at the Saludong peninsula, it became an impovrished battleground between rival neighboring empires until the remnants of Saludong organized into a Sovereign Military Order, liberated the native peoples and enriched as well as ruled them through mandates.

Archaic Time

The Malayo-Polynesians
had wooden boat and houses.

Classical Era

Indianization led to the rise of urban cultures.

Colonial Epoch

Hispaniolic colonization established pueblos and barrios.

First Republic

In a revolutionary congress that denounced the corruption, racial inequality and greed of the Hispaniolic Empire, a gathering of Natives, Colonists, Latino Mercenaries, and Archipelago-born Hispaniolists, rallied and revolted against the civil and military grip of the Imperial mainland declared independence, wrote a Comprehensive Constitution and a popular intellectual and writer Jose Ryzal wrote the philosophical treatises called "Tractates of the Philippians" to morally and philosophically guide the new Federal Republic made up of a the former states that used to occupy the islands. However, the Hispaniolic Empire murdered Jose Ryzal in the war, but not before his daughter, Sophia was elected as the first President of the Federal Republic of the Philippians. After a massive war of independence which destroyed the land and fractured the people, independence was finally declared and recognized on June 12, 1898.

Cacique Democracies

The splintering into Cacique Republics
occured during the Industrial Era.

Hakketomat

Evil Dictators Happyland

Hakketomat

Evil Dictators Happyland

Subjugation by Neighboring Empires

In the late 1900s, following the long standing intrusion of Evil Dictators Happyland and Hakketomat into domestic affairs after the fragmentation of the nation, neighboring Boolari and Echolilia saw oppurtunities to carve their own puppet states and colonies in the contested archipelago and soon they joined the free for all war for the islands too. The people and the land was eventually scarred with conflict. This era was known as the war of the 10000 States, named after the multitude of fiefdoms that arose across the archipelago amidst the 10000 islands. Meanwhile, the, former President, Sophia was killed by the violence and her daughter Scholastica inherited the honors of her office but she was exiled to the island of Dangha but nevertheless put up Spiritual, Philosophical and Non-Violent Resistance to the invaders of her native land. This was when in a bout of mystical revelation it was revealed to her in an prophetic dream that one day as the shining man in her visions say, she will stand a chance to restore her fallen country...

The Lost Homeland

Old Saludong collapsed after the civil war
and then fell to the Caliphate.

Decadence

Old Saludong, without the presence of its formerly warlike aristocracy, blossomed into a bastion of democracy and equality, but only for a brief moment. Soon, its people fragmented due to the lack of a ruling dynasty and the territory was divided into several principalities and republics. Taking advantage of the fragmentation. An Emir named Ibn Aliq who himself was a fleeing survivor of a civil war in a Middle Eastern Caliphate, established his new rival Caliphate in what is now Old Saludong. Ibn Aliq then fused local and Middle Eastern cultures to form a new power in the shared sea and soon it became a force in its own right.

Salvation

Andrei Paleologos and his army totally composed of fit and young aristocratic men plus his wife and his family, upon their exile from old Saludong, traversed the open ocean and then arrived in the Pacific. To supplement their income and tap their strength they wandered the Pacific as well as several other regions as an armed band of mercenaries. In the meantime, the royal family and aristocrats took this time to prove their martial valor and improve their lineage via marrying and making families with the noble ladies their mercenary forces worked for. Nevertheless, they didn’t lose their nomadic and raiding character for 4 generations until the leadership of Petros Paleologos who by that time, had nomadically transferred to the region of 10000 Islands, that in a particular battle against an oppressive local empire received a vision in the sky of an army of men growing from the sun and lighting up everything else with it, which he took as a blessed omen. This inspired him to win the siege, the vision didn’t end there, after the battle, he sailed and followed the path of the sun all day Westwards and Northwards until it finally set on the Contested Archipelago. So, being curious settled his forces there and built encampments.

Rise of San Kalungsod Saludong

Saludong's royal remnants became
a Militant Sovereign Order and re-established
their state in the 10000 Islands, restoring and fusing
with the Philippian Republic, then shepherding
a league of local kingdoms.

Convergence

After a very long discussion it became clear to both Petros and Scholastica that the saint had guided them to this very moment. That Petros’ army had been forged in the crucible of various wars and wandered the world to strengthen themselves so that they could refoundthe fallen Old Saludong as a union with a restored Philippians. They combined the red and blue colors of fallen Philippian Republic with Petros’ omen of the Sun of Men to form the sigil of the new nation, Scholastica then wrote a new founding document based on the tractates of the Philippians and the ideals and literature of the royal books of Old Saludong as well as the military and scientific theses the nomadic band had accumulated through the generations, and created the “Compendium Saludong”, a grand Encyclopedia organizing the collective knowledge and ideals of President Scholastica's former nation and why it should be restored and the chronicles of King Petro's wandering remnant army and using that as Manifesto of their cause, to be distributed among the people of the Contested Archipelago to establish rapport between them and the militant brotherhood, and thus plan and organize the restoration of their fallen nations.

Establishment

With the combining of the forces of President Scholastica and King Petros, a massive unification drive and military liberation of former Philippian territory went underway. First, it began as a guerrilla movement with strategic raiding and retreats against the enemy occupiers: the nations of Evil Dictators Happyland, Hakketomat, Echolilia, and Boolari. Then several towns began rallying to the cause of restoration as occupier strength were peaking in the cities and coasts, however what gave further power to the restoration was the promise to the various native and immigrant groups that the restoration would give them rule over their own lands and subkingdoms in a composite state, instead of being treated as colonies. Inspired by the promise of returned autonomy, the formerly suppressed native kingdoms defected in an avalanche of support to the restorationists. A symbolic victory came about with the capture of the former colonial capital and largest city, of Manilae, came through. After which the occupying powers offered to sue for a conditional surrender. The restorationists didn’t want terms and King Petros ordered that every occupier would be expelled from the Contested Archipelago, so 5 more years of war came by until the very last occupying force, a battalion from left the archipelago in 1911 in humiliating defeat. After the last occupier was expelled from the archipelago, a general congress to rationalize the territorial subdivisions and ratify the Compendium Saludong was held on September 9 1919.

The Order, now powerful, is waging wars
for liberating others and reconquering
Old Saludong from the Caliphate.

As the restoration of the Philippians came about, it became a power in the region of 10000 islands by its’ own right. The Philippian Republic declared itself to be part of a composite state, made up of several subkingdoms and principalities, and afterwards the composite state declared the creation of the Order of San Kalungsod Saludong, in honor of the saint who made the restoration possible and was positioned as part of its' Composite State. The Order was given sovereign status and territory was set aside, mostly in the cities and bases dotting the archipelago as the surrounding subkingdoms and even the Philippian Republic itself was given over to the Order as its “mandates”, in which the Order protects and fosters the populations and in exchange the mandates give them their young men to be trained or serve in the order as well as give a certain percentage of resources as contributions or investments. Under the guidance of The Order, the archipelago flourished culturally, militarily, scientifically and diplomatically. Local cultures were protected and enriched while a mandated fitness regimen and families competing for aristocratic status fueled a eugenics program that increased the general health of the people. Free market capitalism was also employed as clans competed in wealth and prestige. Competition and private sector driven economics made prices low. A space program was developed and domestic trade as well as foreign commerce with the rest of 10000 Islands flourished. The nation became renowned as a center of Culture, Cuisine and Tourism as well as female romance tourism, due to it’s abundance of fit, aristocratic and naked young men who supplement their incomes with romancing and having sexual relations and producing children with visiting women. The military also became a powerful force as it continued it’s work as paid muscle to intervene in state conflicts abroad. The main industries asides from Tourism and the Army, are, Agriculture, Publishing, Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Mass Media, and Entertainment as the population quintupled into 107 Million people.

Mission

At present, the Order has sent expeditions to Old Saludong only to discover that it has been conquered by the Caliphate of Aliqid so the Order sends warbands to recover territory from the Caliphate and there is a concerted “Reconquista” of the old Peninsula. The Order also military intervenes in several campaigns abroad and generally works as “liberationists” since the origins of the Order lie in restoring fallen nations and avenging invasions it has made it its’ business to liberate the territories of other regions and nations which fell to raiding or imperial control.

<<San Kalungsod Saludong Proper>>

The country is mostly at a highly urbanized tropical archipelago.

San Kalungsod Saludong has territories in 2 land masses. The main territory is at the region of 10000 Islands where inhabits an archipelago of 12 main islands and hundreds of islets and corral atolls, with a total land area, including inland bodies of water, of 300,000 square kilometers (115,831 sq mi). The islands are composed of volcanic, coral, principal rock formations. Eight major types of forests are distributed throughout the San Kalungsod Saludong; dipterocarp, beach forest, pine forest, molave forest, lower montane forest, upper montane or mossy forest, mangroves, and ultrabasic forest. The highest mountain is Mount Gwapo Ako. It measures up to 2,954 meters (9,692 ft) above sea level and is located on the island of Kita Ay Macho. The largest river is the Rio de Formoso in the island of Tayoy Tisoy

Situated on the western entrace to the 10000, San Kalungsod Saludong experiences frequent seismic and volcanic activity.
Significant mineral deposits exist as a result of the country's complex geologic structure and high level of seismic activity.These deposites are considered highly valuable. Gold, Palladium, Marble and Iron are abundant. Other minerals include Chromite, Nickel, and Zinc. This Metal wealth lies largely un-mined as a result of strict environmental regulations. The Pitoy Plateau to the east is an undersea region active in tectonic subduction. Around 20 earthquakes are registered daily, though most are too weak to be felt. The sea of Tito Knights is located further to the east. The Archipelago has maritime borders with the Mainland nation of Echolilia to the East and the two Landmass composing nations of Hakketomat to the south and Evil Dictators Happy Land to the North.

The Archipelagic territorries, has two components; the first is the Local Mandates or the Constitutuent Nations of which, the order has responsibility in defending or organizing, these nations are autonomous and have their own local cultures, languages, currency, police-force, infrastructure and society, but all foreign relations, inter-state commerce, religious guidance and large-scale military affairs are handled by Sovereign Order that shepherds them.

Due to the archipelagic nature of the area where the Sovereign Order has its' center of civilization and power: transporation is mostly through the maritime transport system or through air traffic, however, within the large and small islands the constituent nations of San Kalungsod Saludong has suzereignty over, they have constructed many types of transportation asides from the aerospace and maritime ones; there are many intra-state roads and bridges within and among islands which are close in proximity to each other and especially among those large enough to support an adequate network of roads. There is also the new application of mass transport systems like Magnetic Levitation Trains or "Maglevs" which run at hyper fast speeds and there are also new Hydrofoil ships which run faster than the conventional ones, recently an archipelago wide Subway system was constructed.

(An Animated Map of National Geoscapes and Subdivisions)
The Mandate-Nations are the States the Order rules in the
Main Base at the Contested Archipelago.

=The Union Heartlands=

These territories are directly governed by the Sovereign Order and they often come in the form of incorporated City-States. There are many types of city-states each with their own specialization; some are military, some are religious, some are cultural, some are for governance purposes and some are frontier city-states which has all the elements of the former but has not yet specialized in a specific task, these "seed" settlements are set up in foreign countries hostile to the Soveriegn Order and are tapped as a pacifying force or work as a resource extraction areas for export to the home islands. Asides from these city-states, there are also hinterlands included which are defended by roving patrols of the Sovereign Order's militia as they try to defend or attack some regions. So far these are the regions that our Order has set up City-States or have had Patrols pass through:

West Pacific (Temporary)
This is where the Saint Kalungsod spiritually shepherded the remnants of the nation of Saludong, & gave them a Barangay {Mothership} and a fleet to travel to new lands and the people transformed froma roving mercenary band into a mobile Sovereign Order as it was led from one territory to another through this region.

10000 Islands (Capital)
This is where our the first Settlement of the Order was established in, called "Barangay Nating Ganda", from the repurposed remains of the Mothership and became the Capital of our Sovereign Order.

Contested Archipelago (Main Base)
This is the fabled archipelagic promised land, asides from Old Saludong where San Kalungsod Saludong came from, this is the main set of land the Order holds; in which there are many nations under the Order's mandate here and this where the Order also restored and subsumed the former Republic of the Philippians.

Old Saludong

The nation is sovereign over 4 roving divisons of autonomous and militant peoples, mainly:Saludong sampalataya, Saludong pagmahal, Saludong hustisya and Unicorn powa which the Order taps to wage its wars of liberation and serve as commercial intermediaries or mercenaries. So far, the Order's armies have liberated the following regions against the Empire of The Black Hawks and other Raiding States.

Boston
Saarland
Yorkshire
Omashu
The Grand Imperial Alliance
Gayland
Weebtopia
Ost Arsen
Yorkshire
Iran

Source: https://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/39353/san-kalungsod-saludong

<<Reconquista (Old Saludong)>>

At the fallen homeland of Old Saludong, the successor state of San Kalungsod Saludong maintains an Enclave at the Saludong Penninsula primarily in the mountain range of Bagong Asa which lie near the coast and where it maintains bases and armies that aim for the reconquest of the Peninsula. Old Saludong is divided into a temperate north and Mediterranean south bisected by the Sierra Grande Mountain Range. In the northern valleys, pinetree woodlands are common and river systems water the forests and meadows. San Kalungsod Saludong maintains hidden towns and bases in this area as support points for raids and invasions to the megacities of the Aliq Caliphate to the South. Except for the lone city Doledo which was taken in the Reconquista and where it became a translation and reverse-engineering center of San Kalungsod Saludong of the technology and culture of the Aliq Caliphate, the enemy Aliq Caliphate occupy the pseudo-desert and Mediterranean-weathered southern plains. Savannahs, shrubland and fertile agricultural fields feed large cities here which dot the coasts and trade heavily with the Mediterranean Caliphates and Emirates farther to the Middle East and the Southern Continent.

<<Moon Colony>>

The nation is saving up for a moon colonization.

Despite the density, people are young and the
population is centered on the nuclear family.

The Commission on Population estimated the country's population to be 107,190,081 as of December 31, 2018, based on the latest population census of 2015 conducted by the San Kalungsod Saludong Statistics Authority. The population increased from 1990 to 2008 by approximately 28 million, a 45% growth in that time frame.

The population's median age is 22.7 years with 60.9% aged from 15 to 64 years old. Life expectancy at birth is 74.2 years, 78.1 years for females and 73.9 years for males.

The vast majority of the population is urban (90%) and a smaller percentage rural (10%).

There is a slight gender imbalance among the mandates and the order, since San Kalungsod Saludong recruits and reassigns the aristocratic young men of the mandates as members of the Sovereign Order, the mandates, or subkingdoms governed by the order often have Female to Male Ratios of 52 females to 50 males while the Order is exclusively made up of men, excepting the position of "Visionary" an office inherited from the historical female founding president of the Order, Scholastica.

Ethnic Groups

The population is very diverse, it is made up of Malays; Sinitics; Indics; Latinos (Mulattoes, Mestizos and Amerindians) and these three are originally not native to the archipelago since they were colonists from the Hispaniolic empire but they rebelled and formed their own independent Republics in the contested archipelago, there is also a small minority of Aquamen with a tiny remnant of Negritos who are the aboriginal inhabitants before the coming of the Sovereign Order on the contested archipelago.

The Order may be male exclusive but is ethnically inclusive.

Languages

The main language in real life where Saludongenio is based over is actually Filipino as it is a cosmpolitan admixture of Latin-American Spanish, Chinese, Sanskrit, Arabic and Malayo-Polynesian (Otherwise, in the alternate world, it's just called Saludongenyo). The main practiced foreign languages are English, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Malay, Sanskrit and Tamil and is spoken by the former colonists and immigrants from these nations. There are several protected native major regional languages, all part of the Austronesian language family except the Hispanic Creole called Chavacano. These are: Singhapalan, Naymilan, Puto-anon, Lindaonon, Suluknon, Madasnon and Lapitanenyo. There are other languages too but they have smaller numbers of speakers. There are also Saludongian Negrito languages and finally the indecipherable language of the Aquamen who speak in the sonar level. The Latin Script is the official script although Baybayin and the Abugida of the native Malay words, based off of Indic scripts is used in a decorative and formal manner. Sinic, Indic and Arabic scripts are used in an auxiliary manner mostly by migrants from these language group to San Kalungsod Saludong.

Ethnologue lists multiple languages spoken across the Order, the Order is subdivided among houses which use a common mother tounge.

Religion

Most Saludongians are Roman Catholic.

Universal Public Education by the
constituent-kingdoms are provided yet people
prefer to send their kids to the Order's schools.

Education

The Order runs private schools, universities and gyms across the mandates it shepherds although each local kingdom offers compulsory public education. In the Order's directly controlled territory, education is operated by the Order itself. In most states, children are required to attend school from the age of six or seven (generally, kindergarten or first grade) until they turn 18 (generally bringing them through twelfth grade, the end of high school); some states allow students to leave school at 16 or 17.

About 12% of children are enrolled in parochial or nonsectarian private schools. Just over 2% of children are homeschooled. The Order spends more on education per student than any nation in region. Some 80% of college students attend public universities.

Of Kalungsod Saludongians 25 and older, 84.6% graduated from high school, 52.6% attended some college, 27.2% earned a bachelor's degree, and 9.6% earned graduate degrees. The basic literacy rate is approximately 99%. The United Nations assigns the Order an Education Index of 0.97.

Health

Among the mandates, health care is provided by the national and local governments. Payment for personal medical services is offered through a universal health insurance system across the mandates that provides relative equality of access, with fees set by a government committee. People without insurance through employers can participate in a national health insurance program administered by local governments. Since 1973, all elderly persons have been covered by government-sponsored insurance.

Considering the Order's charism of physical fitness, asides from the healthcare provided by the local Mandate-Nations, Universal Healthcare is ensured among all members of the Order itself, with personal trainers even attached. This is because healthcare and exercise is a top priority amongst Order members.

The Archipelago's architecture is an eclectic
mix of Malayo-Polynesian, Sinitic, Indic and Latino-Hispaniolic.

Order members are well groomed &
sport the Islander-Romanesque aesthetics.

As a general description, the distinct value system of Saludongians is rooted primarily in personal alliance systems, especially those based in kinship, obligation, friendship, religion (particularly Christianity), and commercial relationships.

Saludongian values are, for the most part, centered around maintaining social harmony, motivated primarily by the desire to be accepted within a group. The main sanction against diverging from these values are the concepts of "Hiya", roughly translated as 'a sense of shame', and "Amor propio" or 'self-esteem'. Social approval, acceptance by a group, and belonging to a group are major concerns. Caring about what others will think, say or do, are strong influences on social behavior among Saludongios.

Other elements of the San Kalungsod Saludongio value system are optimism about the future, pessimism about present situations and events, concern and care for other people, the existence of friendship and friendliness, the habit of being hospitable, religious nature, respectfulness to self and others, respect for the female members of society, the fear of God, and abhorrence of acts of cheating and thievery.

Local Mandates

The territories of San Kalungsod Saludong are divided into "Mandates" which are autonomous but pay tribute to the Order and the "Union Heartlands" which are directly governed by the Order. Each mandate is either governed by a local king whether it be a Datu, Rajah or Sultan, for native kingdoms, or a President called a "Caudillo" when ruled as a Cacique Republic. Together with the King or Caudillo, there is the Senate with 50 members each. The Mandates' government is responsible for things that affect their local kingdom, such as the maintenance of roads, services between cities and the creation of laws and decrees that only make sense within the territory of a particular Mandate and would be unnecessary, counterproductive or redundant in others. The Mandates are expected to contribute Men to become the Order's members, from their Aristocratic class, and serve as soldiers or workers in the Order's many missions in the Archipelago or Abroad.

Each Mandate is divided into Districts, also known as Communes, which are responsible for the majority of civil services in the cities, towns and villages of each Mandate. Each District is governed by a Governor or Mayor, together with a group of 9 people who are known as Commune Councilors.

The following is a list of all the Mandates of the Order, together with their Kings or Caudillos and other important information:

The Senate Grand Chamber.

The Grandmaster is the elected commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the Order and he is the highest governing authority of the land since after the restoration the King only became a symbolic figure. The officers however are elected

Among the Order's enemies are the Bloody trolls much lolz who
are man-eating monsters that especially love to eat men's manhoods.
The Order sends scores of fit youths as well as battle hardened veterans,
only for a large portion of them ending up as lunch.

Currently, the nation is at war with many different enemies. It is waging war against raiders like The Black Hawks, Reconquering Old Saludong from the invading Caliphate, and also struggling against the man-eating hordes of Bloody trolls much lolz and to wage these wars, the army maintains several industrial grade weapons. There is a large infantry brigade and they are equipped with the latest weapons, like infrared seeing, Artificial Intelligence, Orbital Satellite Monitoring, Storage Miniaturization, Lasers and Laser Guided Missiles, several warships which include: corvettes, frigates, battleships, cruisers, submarines, and aircraft carriers. The army trains regularly and at times of invasions from outside, there are conscriptions to protect the Home Islands. Otherwise, there is no conscription.

The Order's Airforce is seasoned and experienced.

From its dual inception during the Old Saludong Civil War and the Philippian Revolution, the Armed Forces have played a decisive role in the history of the Order. It helped forge a sense of national unity and identity through its victories in the War of Restoration and the War of the Reconquest of Old Saludong, attacks against the man eating Bloody trolls much lolz, the refounding of Iran and wars of liberation across the regions of Boston, Saarland, Yorkshire, Omashu, The Grand Imperial Alliance, Gayland, Weebtopia, Ost Arsen, Yorkshire, England, Smol Fur Empire, The Cosmos Union, and Syria. The National Security Act of 1947, adopted following the War of Restoration, created the modern San kalungsod saludong military framework. The Act made the National Military Establishment, headed by the secretary of defense; and created the SKS Force and the National Security Council. It was amended in 1949, renaming the National Military Establishment the Department of Defense, and merged the cabinet-level the Army Department, the Navy Department , & Department of the Air Force, to the Defense Department.

The Army has succesful campaigns of liberation across several regions, however it's main outpost is at Shinka.

Transport

Watercraft is the chief mode of transport in the archipelago.

Public transport in the country include buses, jeepneys, UV Express, TNVS, Filcab, taxis, and tricycles. Jeepneys are a popular and iconic public utility vehicle. Jeepneys and other Public Utility Vehicles which are older than 15 years are being phased out gradually in favor of a more efficient and environmentally friendly Euro 4 compliant vehicles. The archipelago also employs a massive and expensive inter-island subway system.

Despite wider historical use, rail transport in the archipelago is extremely limited, being confined to transporting passengers between the largest city and the capital.The capital is served by three rapid transit lines: LRT Line 1, LRT Line 2 and MRT Line 3. Railway lines that are under-construction include the 4-kilometre (2.5 mi) Line 2 East Extension Project (2020), the 22.8-kilometre (14.2 mi) MRT Line 7 (2020), the 35-kilometre (22 mi) The Salute-Dong Subway (2025), and the 109-kilometre (68 mi) PNR North-South Commuter Railway which is divided into several phases, with partial operations to begin in 2022. The civil airline industry is regulated by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Archipelago. The SKS Airlines is the national flaship Air Carrier.

Nuclear power is widely used and thus elctricity is clean & cheap.

Water and Sanitation

In 2015, it was reported by the Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation that 99% of the population had access to improved sanitation, and that "good progress" had been made between 1990 and 2015. As of 2016, 99% of Saludongian households have an improved source of drinking water, and 97% of households had sanitary toilet facilities connected to sewerage facilities and sewege treatment plants.

Energy

The energy market is about 29,000 terawatt hours per year. In 2005, 40% of this energy came from Nuclear Power, 23% from Geothermal, and 22% from Hydropowered Dams. The remainder was supplied by Tidal and Oil.

Despite being among the highest consumers of electricity, the nation has cheap and plentiful supply due to it's insistence on Nuclear Power and the abundance of Geothermal vents around the archipelago due to the volcanic nature of the islands.

A percentage table of the Order's different exports.

The economy has produced an estimated gross domestic product (nominal) of 𝒦s₱ 5.2987916 Trillion. Primary exports include semiconductors and electronic products, transport equipment, garments, copper products, petroleum products, tropical food, coconut oil, and fruits. Most major trading partners are in the region of 10000 Islands

A newly industrialized country, the San Kalungdsod Saludong economy has recently transitioned from one based upon agriculture to an economy with more emphasis upon services and manufacturing. Of the country's 2018 labor force of around 43.46 million, the agricultural sector employed 24.3%, and accounted for 8.1% of 2018 GDP. The industrial sector employed around 19% of the workforce and accounted for 34.1% of GDP, while 57% of the workers involved in the services sector were responsible for 57.8% of GDP.

The unemployment rate as of October 2019, stands at 4.5%. Meanwhile, due to lower charges in basic necessities, the inflation rate eased to 1.7% in August 2019. Gross international reserves as of October 2013 are $173.201 billion. The Debt-to-GDP ratio continues to decline to 37.6% as of the second quarter of 2019 from a record high of 78% in 2004. The country is a net importer but it is also a creditor nation.

Food Production, Processing and Consumption
are leading industries of the nation.

Industries:

Agriculture: The main industry in San Kalungsod Saludong is agriculture, chief of which is the growing of tropical fruits, grains and vegtables such as rice, mangoes, kamote (sweet potato), maize (corn), qinoa, squash, potatoes, sugarcane, honey, dragonfruit, piña (pinapple), tomatoes, coconuts and bananas. This is due to the tropical nature of archipelago as well as it's fertile volcanic soil which allows 2 or 3 harvests per year.

Aquaculture: Due to the nation being surrounded by seas, it has a large aquaculture which farms seaweed, shrimp, fish (salmon, tuna, milkfish, bangus and tilapia), lobsters as well as pearls.

Food Processing: There are many food processing plants, restaurants and eateries spread across the nation. Coconut is often processed into coconut oils, bananas are sometimes processed into banana ketchup, sugarcane into brown sugar, and fish into Omega13 rich Fish Oil.

Finance: The nation is also a financial center, stocks, derivatives, bonds, commodities and futures are constantly traded. Free markets and online banking is also allowed, cryptocurrency and cashless transactions are commonly accepted.

San Kalungsod Saludong has
an active finance industry.

Manufacturing: Manufacturing of designer leather goods, woven fabrics, furniture, storage bags, and knicknacks is done.

Mass Transportation: The nation is home to a huge inter-island subway system and has a very large fleet of container ships which the country leverages to transport its massive population of 100 million across individual isles and at the same time, trade with her neighbors.

Construction: Because of the fast growing economy of the archipelago, there is a lively construction industry which builds the towns, cities, military bases, underground areas and transport networks of the archipelago.

Recycling: Due to the limited space of the crowded islands which prevents zoning of large dump sites, recycling of very much a large industry. Sewege, after being treated, is processed to become fertilizer. Old electronics are stripped of their metals and rare-earth parts to be reused in new electronics. Steel and concrete from old buildings are melted down to make new ones. Only biodegradable plastics are used and people often use paper bags. Refuse that cannot be recycled or turned to fertilizer are compressed and mixed with crushed sea stones and soil to be used in land expansions and thus new real estate in the crowded archipelago.

Geoengineering: Despite being a highly urbanized state, the archipelago practices geoengineering and helps the environment by planting trees and seeding corrals.

Services:

Martial Arts: The Sovereign Order has a branch that are members in the military so, the men recruited from the nations the Order protects, as well as from the elected noble families co-ruling and competing against each other in the order, send their sons to train and fight in the order. Kalungsod is the originator of many martial and healing arts that deals with healing and as well as damaging a person's body and soul. Exercises and training are tough though but as a result, members have a good physique. As well as taking care of the body other aspects of human personhood, San Kalungsod Saludong training also include learning how to crew ships, work with fellow soldiers in a platoon or pilot airplanes; once training is complete people are then assigned to their specialties and some who are multi-talented get appointed to become Officers, Captains, Admirals or Generals.

Tourism, Leisure and Entertainment: San Kalungsod Saludong is a Sovereign Order that set up post in virgin islands full of lush greenery and in the vicinity of ancient corral reef systems. On some islands there are even cold or near temperate temperatures at the mountains that allow for the growth of pine trees. The Sovereign Order also has mandates to protect the several kingdoms, polities and republics in the archipelago and the natives there and members of the Order foster and preserve ancient culture, architecture and history. Survivors and descendants from the original nation of Saludong are particularly zealous in preserving the history, culture, legacy, knowledge, architecture and the natural surroundings plus resources of the lands and islands the Order has established branches in, because they know the deep pain of losing their original homeland to disasters and war. Thus with everyone's cooperation, San Kalungsod Saludong has helped its' mandate states and itself too, have the richest cultures and lushest environments in the region. The fit and handsome men and the beautiful and graceful women of the Sovereign Order and the nations under the Order's mandate, are a natural attraction themselves, that's why tourism is high in San Kalungsod Saludong. There is also burgeoning entertainment industry in San Kalungsod Saludongas; some people are great muscicians, actors, dancers and are quite talented, yet the entertainment industry is more low-key here than in other states.

Immaculate "Stud Service": Due to the fact that the soveriegn Order of San Kalungsod Saludong recruits the most physically, intellectually and spirituality fit men of the archipelago to serve as sailors, soldiers, scholars or clergy; these men are encouraged to propogate their seeds, so part of the job includes mandatory "stud service" to the people where Kalungsod members, due to the natural perfections of their genetics and characters are encouraged to impegranate women and also to serve their seed up to ritually nourish both male and female paying customers.

There is also a huge market in demand for San Kalungsod Saludongero Sperm and Egg cells especially among the more handicapped genetically and less diverse nations that need insemination from the more healthy, fit and genetically and ethnically diverse populations of the Sovereign Order or the nations that are its mandates.