wrong reply chain, accidental infighting 😭

very astute observation

yes, the country that’s actively reducing their fossil fuel use and have historically reached their stated goals with time to spare is surely the problem, never mind the massive pollution from the long-industrialized Western countries that have had many decades to stop using fossil fuels

any serious political story would need to disregard some things from the games (the minuscule “cities”, the NPCs who stay in the same area forever, etc.) and then explain how 10-year-old children can safely roam around holding animal fights, whether Pokémon are sentient (and why Pokémon can be stored as data, although you could probably discard that plot point), etc.

in terms of political alignment, considering there doesn’t seem to be much work being done by humans, left-wing movements would likely be focused on the material conditions and rights of Pokémon

aside from the very ham-fisted stuff in B/W/B2/W2, the closest thing to a political narrative (certainly not communist, but fairly interesting) in Pokémon I’ve seen is a ROM hack called Rocket Edition