>>17196963Some time after the explosion, a nuclear winter came. More people started to die from radiation exposure. Some tried to flee to Hoenn by boat, but those to made the trip were met with gunshots from the new government of Hoenn's relentless border patrol. In time, Hoenn paid for their sins, as the fallout soon reached them and the other regions as well. Their government shared the same fate of Kanto and Johto's.
By 2057, the sight of mutated and extremely agressive Pokemon became common. The survivors then gathered what little they could and built walled villages to defend themselves from the mutated pokemon.