Watched a couple of episodes today and the first movie and starting wondering on this. I don't wanna include the manga because how deadly it looks and only played like blue and Y.
So the poke clinics are free and seem to act as maybe a shelter. Don't know on food because I guess some pokemon can make it thinking milktank or shuckle.
There are police that seem to do something. And of course team rocket means there is organized crime in that world.
I think there are mayors and money. No idea if any central government, maybe the elite four of each region but I've no idea.
Anyway thoughts and discussion please.
ok so you are right about team rocket, the hoenn has a bunch of eco-terrorists like team aqua and team magma, team galactic is an end of the world cult, team plasma is a radical pokemon rights activists that splits in the 2° game and becomes a fascist cell, team flare is a eco-fascist terrorist group, and team skull is just a gang
Yeah the teams are there own thing with goals and everything but more like the underbelly. I don't know but I think they maybe stay to their own turf so as not to compete I guess with exception when they try world domination or other global encompassing things.
i think the only ones that engage with each other is Rocket and Skull because they are both crime related, but the others have little in common
True I admit I haven't watched all the anime or played all the games but I can imagine maybe for sake of writing only one organization per region. On a realistic side maybe they know of each other but don't want to fight.
all the organizations are kinda far away from each other, except Rocket, magma, aqua and galactic, they all live in pokemons japan, so maybe rocket interacts with the other 3, but probably not much since they arent rival yakuzas
Yeah you're right. Still raises the question of economics like how are magma, aqua and galactic are funded. They not crime based but still need money.
team Aqua are shown as pirates and team magma are scientists, so maybe their funding comes from that, team galactic is a literal cult so they probably get their funding from their followers