Fixed the issue. It was the fact that like I was making new sections in the catalogue and messing with the min_ranks. I changed every category min_rank to rank 1 and the cata on rank 1 is fine.
The emulator is going to catch that VIP is the last page on the list, check the rank, and give permission to all the pages before that. Parent pages help the emulator establish different sets of order numbers. It calculates the order numbers for the parent pages then all the sub pages in them.