The Recontrol Program

*"Silly Invincible! That's a question that can be answered through the Decontrol System! Y'see, back in the 1900s all the way to the 40s, America's colony was the Philippines! Its capital was even bombed during Pearl Habor and crap! However, when the Philippines was gonna receive independence from their daddy America, Uncle Sam made sure that the Philippines remain underneath the Philippines through the Bell Trade Act! The Americans basically keep getting resources from us and they make it into cool products! Like flour! Radios! The TV! Chips! Nike's! And every other known product!"*

*"What does this have to do with any-?"*

*"BUUUUT!!! When a Filipino named Claro M. Recto, a great nationalist, found that what they were doing was kinda... well... wrong...! Because we'd still be dependent on them to exist as a country... It was decided by President Carlos P. Garcia that the Philippines should go with the FOREX Program, where they would lessen foreign goods importing into the Philippines and focus more on MAKING good products FROM OUR OWN resources and EXPORTING goods instead! Then, WE GOT RICH!!! HOORAY!!! BUT!!! Because the Americans were SOOOO scared about the Cold War and the CIA going paranoid AGAIN... They manipulated the elections... ALLEGEDLY... To make Macapagal win instead! And he would create the Decontrol Program, which allowed his Pro-American boner to succeed in giving American and foreign products to the Philippines! Over time... we became more dependent on America and less dependent on our own natural resources. America buys our resources for a VERY LOW price... Then they sell it back to us in the form of cooler gadgets and foods and stuff IN A HIGHER PRICE... We get poorer... America gets richer..."*

*"That was the most passive-aggressive history lesson I've ever had," said Mark.*

*"BUT THEN!!! THE GENIUS!!! THE ONE AND ONLY MIGUEL JOJO SAVED ALL OF THE PHILIPPINES!!! How? He made America colonize each of the Solar Systems of each universe he had colonized with the combined technology of every world. Now... He then made a REVERSE DECONTROL PROGRAM where America would sell its mined materials for a very high price to the Philippines. THEN... The Philippines would develop it as products with the help of the Speedwagon Foundation, Hellsing Organization, AND the Citadel, into forming pretty amazing products that they would THEN SELL back to America FOR A HIGHER PRICE!!! Making America poorer... And the Philippines and other third-world countries richer!"*

*"Dude... He's the reason 500 million Americans on each Earth are poor?" asked Mark.*

*"Yeah! Isn't he great!?" smiled Josuke.*

*The others are just... baffled by this.*

**The Recontrol Program** is a fictional and fairly controversial program in the Abatman continuity. In the real world, it is based on the also controversial Decontrol Program.

## Real-World History

As a real-world historical background, the United States once had the Philippines as a colony for nearly fifty years. However, when the Philippines received independence, the U.S. tried to keep the Philippines on a leash by using the Bell-Trade Act, which would keep the country dependent on the hegemony. However, the FOREX Program would come to make the imports stricter in order to give a way for Filipino products to breathe using their own resources. The Decontrol would come next due to the alleged manipulation of the CIA in order for the Philippines to become more dependent on America once again. They would be sold foreign products for a higher price based on the resources the Filipinos sold to the foreign country for a much lower price, explaining the Philippines' current conditions today. This could be explained from Alejandro Lichauco's The Philippine Crisis which explained how imperialism affects the Philippines and other third-world countries today.

## The Recontrol Program

During the mid-2030s, Miguel would have Rick colonize most of the Solar Systems on each universe to get American companies to mine as much as they can. However, Miguel managed to trick Americans by making the Americans inadvertently sell the resources they got to the Philippines for a high price. The Filipinos would then mysteriously gain new companies that would create very expensive products and reselling them for an even higher price to the American population, which is a satire of the Decontrol Program, The Americans get poorer and the Filipinos get richer, making the United States of Multiversal America and other European countries literally slaves of several thousand worlds. This could also explain the phenomenon in America in the Abatman Continuity.

## The Recontrol Superheroes

Lex Luthor's hatred of Superheroes stems from this program. The Superheroes came to the world in the first place in order to greater benefit the world, according to Miguel, at least. However, most of the Superhero-ing business occurred in the United States and the Philippines are the ones that enlists said heroes. Thus, Superheroes are yet another product that is extremely important to Americans today in the series. America is once again kept on a leash by the Filipino people using Superheroes as a product.

## Solar Mining

Stark Industries, Queen Consolidated, the Speedwagon Foundation, Passione, Higashikata Fruit Company, Oscorp, and many other companies owned by the Hellsing all have branches that mine much of the resources of the Solar Systems of each Earth. This very vast monopoly would then sell the resources to the Philippines and other former Third-World countries where these countries would then create newer and better products for the Americans to buy and use, effectively creating an environment imperialist capitalism that America once did. Wayne Enterprises and LexCorp are the only companies in America that prohibits itself from selling their resources to other countries.

## The Citadel of the Smiths

The Smiths are essentially their own race at this point, with each variant, Time Remnant, and clone of the Smith family acting as the police force and military force of the entirety of Maharlica. The Smiths also have their base of operations on America, but their true allegiance is to Maharlica, as for some unknown reason, they are obligated to serve the Joestars no matter what. Their bases present on America act as a tool for the Philippines to continue their control over its government and continue puppeteering many of its politicians.

## Debt Dependency and Unequal Trade Relations

The USMA and Europe are always in debt. In order to harvest more resources from the solar system, the nations continue to ask money from the now-richer nations in order to continue to survive.

## Maharlican Mentality

A play on "Colonial Mentality". It is observed in the books that Philippine, Asian, and African culture is much more prevalent in the entirety of America than in the real world because of how Maharlica's hegemonies being able to create better and more expensive products and sell them back to America. Thus, their cultures are also popularized there.

## Pressure Against Other Nations

Maharlica has many enemies in space such as the Galactic Federation, the Decepticon Empire, the Autocratic Galactic Empire, the Viltrumite Empire, or even the Korudo Empire. In order for it to maintain a friendly balance with these rival nations, Maharlica makes sure to keep them in check using America and its territories in space as a buffer state. This will be encountered in the mini-series known as Transformers: CITADEL.

## Metahuman Manufacture

Metahuman Manufacturing is a type of controversial legal human experimentation authorized by the government wherein Humans and even Animals are turned into Metas. These manufactures Metas would then act as heroes that will serve Maharlica, primarily America, which is incredibly dependent to these people. This was first encountered in School with Deadpool with Alkali-Transigen and will be tackled again in the final Arc of Jazzheart.

## Trivia

Each of these phenomena are all tied-in to the idea of Neo-Colonialism.