Phillippines

The **Philippines**, officially the **Republic of the Philippines**, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia, situated in the western Pacific Ocean.

Most notably, the Philippines is home to Goliath, a physical embodiment of pure evil who has existed since the Dawn of Time. Why Goliath chooses to live in the Philippines is unknown.

## History

### PreFAP

The archipelago was originally inhabited by the Negritos and various Austronesian peoples. When it was colonized by Spain in the 1500s, it was given the name '**Las Islas Filipinas'** in honor of Philip II of Spain. The Philippines remained part of the Spanish Empire for over 300 years, during which Catholicism became the dominant religion and the capital of Manila became the western hub of trans-Pacific trade. The Philippine Revolution of 1896 became entwined with the Spanish-American War, after which Spain ceded the territory to the United States, leading to the Philippine-American War which resulted in the US establishing control over the territory. After the Japanese invasion of the islands during World War II, the Philippines was liberated and became an independent sovereign state.

### The Weekend Warrior

Weekend Warrior first appeared on EFAP 21, beginning a long series of appearances of the Filipino cartoonman on the podcast.

### Cynic Snacks' Brush with Death

Cynic Snacks appeared on Jay's stream with MauLer, Rags, and Wolf reacting to WatchMojo's breakdown of the *Rise of Skywalker* trailer, the duration of which he spent hiding in a series of Philippine alleyways, as he was on vacation in the Philippines at the time. It was on this stream that the bulk of EFAP's knowledge about the Philippines was amassed, namely their discovery of Goliath, scourge of the Philippines, whose barks punctuated the stream as Cynic Snacks became a target of its bloodlust.

## Society

The Philippines has gone downhill after Goliath moved in and stalked the nights. The government's official stance on Goliath is not to fuck with it.They installed cameras everywhere to keep an eye on it and an alert system to tell people when Goliath is moving, cataloguing its location and current target. Sometimes it disappears competently and people get worried, so they have to monitor Goliath's Snapchat. Goliath's drone looks around for people, reporting to Goliath whom it can attack in the area.

The Philippines does their city maintenance during the night, but there are also the murderers and shotgunners running in the streets during the night, so much of the maintenance cannot be done. Every business has an armed security guard, as there is a lot of crime. The owning, selling or smelling of drugs is punishable by getting gunned down by the police. Filipino alleyways smell like feces. There are a lot of stray dogs in the alleyways, who survive by drinking piss water. Some of these dogs are Goliath's Acolytes and don’t follow Jay's channel, or don’t want to admit it if they do. The Philippines has designated pissing and shitting areas, which can be located via the smell.

A measurement of length in Philippines is "toes," which is helped by gang violence as it provides a lot of severed toes in the alleyways. It is believed that the toes grant wishes if you collect enough of them.

Cats that live in Philippines might not know that they are in the Philippines. They are mostly orphans and therefore have less bone density. If you go towards a cat during the night, Goliath will hunt you down.

The Cosmic Chicken's clucking can be heard in the Philippines during the night.