from /tg/:
Discuss.
It's complicated, but basically Human Society in Pokemon is suspected to be in the middle of recovering from some sort of apocalyptic disaster, possibly some sort of Gene-war, odds are food and resources are scarce, and it's more efficient to simply send the kids out who aren't needed into the world to try and survive.
That's why there's hardly any cars and other vehicles, most settngs are actually medium sized islands barely bigger than hawaii or majorca and there are no animals OTHER than pokemon.
Then there's the fossil pokemon: Supposedly based on dinosaurs, but possibly used as sentient warmachines in some sort of previous pokemon war in bygone ages.
And Lt. Surge talks about fighting in "The War" [...] Exactly, and furthermore, what is he even a Liuetenant of? At not point do we see any evidence of united national level government, and not even a hint aside from surge of any kind of military in the games.
The best we get are officer jenny clones and the occaisional town mayor.
No wonder you've got criminal organisations like Team Rocket or Team Galaxy everywhere.
Also, the game and the cartoon differ on how big the Kanto and Johto areas are (mostly due to gameplay reasons, nobody want's to play for a week just walking) but I get the feeling that the entire Johto/Kanto Area is barely bigger than England or Japan AT BEST.
Maybe somewhere out there, there is a completely fucked up mainland, where the pokemon eat humans, who are forced to hide underground to survive both the pokemon, and the mutant hybrids who just want to yiff everything to death.
Discuss.