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The Confederation of New Visayan Islands.
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Worldbuilding for the universe of the Codex Philippinensis (WIP)
This is dedicated to OOC worldbuilding guidelines and miscellany for the Codex-verse (that is, the universe of the Codex Philippinensis, which includes this country,
Bagong Luzon, and 
Bangsamoro Rojo. General IC worldbuilding details pertaining to NVI are here.Senior High in the Confederation
An average educational institution in the Confederation offering Senior High School would maintain at least three tracks/strands of Senior High School, that is, Grades 11 and 12. Three out of the four tracks/strands offered by an average public institution servicing a geographical area may vary by the institution; the only strand common to such institutions is a General Academic strand, intended for both the undecided and the willingly versatile.
A hypothetical offering in a high school (which by definition offers both Junior High School and Senior High School, that is, Grades 7-10 and 11-12, respectively) located in a large city (henceforth Generica Magna High School) would maintain four tracks/strands; in addition to General Academics, this is a combination of any of the following:
Academic - Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Academic - Humanities and Social Sciences
Academic - Accountancy, Business, and Management
Academic - Maritime
Technical and Vocational - Industrial Arts
Technical and Vocational - Home Economics
Technical and Vocational - Information and Communications Technology
Technical and Vocational - Agriculture and Aquaculture
Sports
Arts and Design
Such a high school may take three to five sections for each track/strand; for the purpose of this scenario GMHS maintains three sections per track/strand, for a total of 12 sections per year or 24 sections in the Senior High School level. Each section may have 30 to 40 students; GMHS has 30 for a total of 720 students. As a public high school, the military aspect of CAT is offered starting Grade 11; a section may see no less than five volunteers, and for the purpose of this scenario, each section in GMHS has 15 cadets. This means a GMHS CAT unit would have 360 cadets in total, enough to fill a small battalion.
The reality, of course, is entirely different; numbers can and will vary when accounting for academic attrition.
Feast of the Holy Child
The 
Gospel Readings for the Feast of the Holy Child in the Ordinary Form are Mt 18:1–5, 10, 12–14 for Year A (2023 liturgical year); Mk 10:13-16 for Year B; and Lk 2:41–52 for Year C; in the Extraordinary Form, the Gospel reading for The Feast of the Holy Child Jesus is Lk 2:21, with the propers prescribed coming from The Most Holy Name of Jesus. The Feast itself falls on the third Sunday of January; the day after is considered a local holiday for the District of Humabon.
Indomitable Spirit-class motor yacht
The Indomitable Spirit-class motor yacht is built by Victoria Shipyards. In describing the yachts of this class, consider the motor yacht A as the baseline.
Samurai of Manila
The five families behind GS26 have a New Filipino counterpart, descended from five samurai who joined Bl. Justo Takayama in exile for their faith. These samurai were Pedro Nakai Yoshiteru, Diego Setou Hayato, Andres Mikado Yoshitaka, Tomas Miura Kazuya, and Felipe Suzuki Akio.
Naming conventions for the Kirishitan of the PI
Long-established Visayan families of Japanese descent can trace their ancestry to as far as the early 1600s, descendants of Japanese Christians exiled for their faith; as a matter of fact, one can identify the religious background of a Japanese-Christian Visayan by the language used in their first names. New Filipino families of Japanese descent, however, typically do not observe any naming conventions outside of the oldest families, nor do the few surviving Japanese-Bangsamoro families who escaped persecution for their religious beliefs.
Japanese-Catholic Visayans typically have Spanish or Portuguese names; French names are typically seen in families who can trace descent from Japanese who came over in the late 1800s. It is rare, but not unheard of, for one to use English names for reasons elaborated in the next bullet point.
Japanese-Protestant Visayans typically have English or, less commonly, Dutch names; rarer still are those who use Spanish names, and only then in families of Aglipayan background. Many of them settled in the Philippine Islands during the American Period, some as early as the 1910s.
Japanese-Orthodox Visayans, descending from those evangelized by the Russians, use Russian names; unique to them is the adaptation of the Russian patronymic into their first names.
Kirishitan families that were established more recently (that is, as late as the 1980s) typically used their birth names in legal documents while referring to themselves by their Christian names in public discourse; as time passed by their descendants would take up the naming conventions practiced by more established families.
New Filipino Kirishitan naming conventions:
The oldest New Filipino Kirishitan families can trace their ancestry to the retainers of Bl. Justo Takayama Ukon who joined him in exile for their Catholic faith. These families observe a naming convention akin to the manner used by the newly evangelized of his time, which in practice means a binomial first name: a Japanese name and a Christian name, such as Magojiro Antonio Iwatama, a Dominican priest with the Shrine and Parish of the Holy Cross, or Kotono Agnes Goto-Santos, a regent of the Royal University of the Philippines.
More recent New Filipino Kirishitan families tend toward observing their own naming conventions.
Political Officers in the Bangsamoro Workers' and Peasants' Army
Political Officers occupy a billet filled by chaplains in the Visayan and New Filipino forces; in the ground forces, they are present from the battalion level up. Political Officers serve a purpose analogous to, but fundamentally different from, the religious support of chaplains: they ensure political stability in (read: embody Party control of) the units they are assigned to.
How did the UP System survive the Civil War?
Short answer: It did and it didn't.
Long answer: The constituent universities of the University of the Philippines System at the time of Civil War were Diliman in Quezon City, Los Baños in the namesake town in Laguna, Manila in the City of Manila, and Visayas in Miagao. After the War, only UP Visayas was located outside the Loyalist territories; UP Visayas--now UPI Miagao--would become the flagship campus and seat of administration of the Confederation's national university, the University of the Philippine Islands System. Despite teething problems, UPI would eventually set the standards for higher education in the Confederation; because of its reputation as the Gold Standard of Higher Education, the eight private universities that have consistently exceeded the standards of UPI are referred to collectively as the Platinum League.
The remaining universities in the system would be rechristened the Royal University of the Philippines in 1990; RUP Diliman still remains the flagship campus and seat of administration of the Royal University of the Philippines System.
