(This retarded headcanon/theory only applies to the gameboy canon [rgbygsc]) The Pokemon world is fucked. It's not a real society. It's a privately-funded operation run by Silph Co. in a secluded area somewhere in the real world (possibly near Japan). Silph Co. owns the Pokemon world. There is no centralized government, or real economy, and law enforcement is minimal and comes off as simplistic. Why is everything in the Pokemon world so simplistic? The Pokemon world is something like North Korea. It is cut off from the outside world, no communication. The people in the Pokemon world don't realize the true nature of their condition. Like North Korea, the people of the Pokemon world are taught government-skewed history of the rest of the world, but people of the Pokemon world can never LEAVE the Pokemon world, or know the truth. The only people who know the truth are Silph Co., the company who makes the Pokeballs, the Pokemon centers, but also... the Pokemon themselves. Pokemon are not real. To put it simply, they are holograms that function in the same way as Digimon. Silph Co. created these digital monsters and with their tech were able to realize them in the "real" world. This explains how Pokemon can become data in balls and PCs, and how Pokemon just appear out of nowhere. Keep in mind even the Pokemon don't know the Pokemon world is a big scam. The reason there are still hints of real animals in the Pokemon world is because the Pokemon world is this world, it's just somewhere without communication with the rest of humanity. Not even Team Rocket knows the truth of their situation. Ash doesn't even realize Pikachu's a hologram. Professor Oak has been studying Pokemon for years and yet not even 150 have been discovered yet. Silph Co. can do whatever they please in their own little world. Silph Co. creates new monsters and spawns them into the world. Silph Co. reprograms their population's brains to assume these new Pokemon have always existed.