>>44898648Have you ever noticed any politics in Pokemon? There are police departments and hospitals,
but we never hear about them receiving any kind of public funding. In fact, the hospitals
are free for Pokemon, and if the anime is anything to go by, free for people as well, at least
for the minor injuries the characters receive there. And police are never seen answering to
any sort of public officials, only responding to private citizens. Because they're not public servants,
they're company employees. Nurse Joys and Officer Jennys are all different people but look the
same because they are brands. Pokemon Centers are a medical company that distributes their
Pokemon products (Potions, etc.) through PokeMarts (a separate but affiliated company) and
advertises them through charity work. And the police are PokeJapan's regional law enforcement
company.
Pokemon is an ancap utopia. In all of their planet's societies, it's a huge cultural
tradition for children and young people to compete with their Pokemon for titles and prestige.
Elite Pokemon trainers like gym leaders and champions are treated as celebrities and
community elders, the closest things we see to authoritative figures. The people of the
Pokemon world live like modernized versions of Bronze Age humans in our world: in large
city-states or pre-governmental rural communities. Where people are too isolated for Pokemon
Centers and Pokemon law enforcement companies, we see local "Ma and Pa" versions of the same
thing: town doctors treating injured Pokemon, and community elders (usually strong or respected
trainers) who manage the town's affairs.
