The world of generation 1 Pokemon has recently gone through a massive war.

Unfortunately, the website provided is rather difficult to use in that I could not find the statistics you were referring to. I spent more time than I should have trying to look for it. On the other hand, here is one of the sources I researched myself: http://www.aecf.org..."Con asks for evidence that Lt. Surge really served in the Kanto military. Using a quote of Lt. Surge: ..... we now know that there is a Kanto war that Lt. Surge served in, it is logical to assume that he got his nickname "The Lightning American" from the military."Pro points out that no Pokémon has ever served in any known US conflict. However, the America in the Pokémon universe is clearly different than the American here, as no where in the world does regions filled with weird animals with supernatural powers exist. The Pokémon worlds cannot be on a different planet either, as if it was, then Lt Surge's nickname wouldn't be so specific as to call him an American, more likely it would be "earthling". Moreover, my opponent also previously suggested that since America is in the Pokémon universe, it is safe to assume that the rest of the countries on Earth also exist, and that Kanto could have been fighting one of those countries and not the any of the known Pokémon regions. I was willing to let this slide, but since my opponent seems to want to have it both ways, I must give him/her a choice; either the America Lt. Surge is from is the America in our reality, in which Pokémon regions don't even exist, or he is from the America from the Pokémon Universe, in which all the Pokémon regions do exist and are not isolated to those regions. The former is impossible because if Kanto didn't exist, this entire debate is irrelevant, so as such my opponent must acknowledge that it is perfectly plausible that in the Pokémon universe, America used Pokémon to fight wars, and Lt. Surge might have been referring to an American war, not a Kanto war, in his quote. And no, since it is not definitive that Lt Surge got his nickname from the Kanto military, however logical it may seem, we cannot just assume so."Con brings up the fact that a very likely reason for the lack of a substantial middle aged population is that they are... aged workers cannot be found in almost any location (Silph Co is the major exception), the hypothesis that the middle aged people are present, but just working is debunked."Key word here is "almost". Not all buildings can be entered, most namely the ones that are either blocked off or have no visible doors. Moreover, there are plenty of places people may be working in but may somehow have eluded the player's attention. For example, all the numerous ports dotted around the region, the Safari Zone, Pokémon Tower (maintenance, undertaking, etc.), all the Pokémon Marts, the Department Store, the Game Corner, architecture (how do you think the cities all look so nice and organized), civil engineering, construction (Vermilion City in particular has a Machop pounding rocks for a construction worker), mining (possibly in caves), electricity, etc. It takes a lot to support a city, and the region would look much different if Silph Co. was the only place people were actually working, considering it is a research facility and makes exactly zero money on its own."Con also mentions that using the USA as a nation to compare to Kanto is unfair to to the wealth of the USA.... simply looking around Kanto, I have failed to see any significant poverty or poor living conditions. Thus, we can imply that Kanto is a relatively wealthy nation."Kanto is much smaller than the US and is as such much easier to sustain. Moreover, not every town in Kanto looks happy and rich. In fact, your hometown, Pallet Town, is a rather drab and boring place, uncharacteristic of a rich neighborhood, considering there are literally only 2 houses. Viridian City, despite having a Gym, is mostly trees. Vermilion City is a port city, and because it is a port city it should be pretty rich, but most of it is pretty underdeveloped, with most of it being water, trees, and dirt. Even Saffron City, the supposed biggest city in Kanto, doesn't even compare to Spokane, much less America's biggest cities such as New York and Chicago (because we are not taking game development into account, I can make this comparison). As such, we can see that Kanto is much, much smaller than America, and because of that demographics are not accurately comparable. Besides, nobody determines how wealthy a country is based on how many poverty areas it had, as if we really did it this way, the US would be among the poorest countries in the world, and Vatican City would be the richest. And if Kanto was really as rich as America, it would probably have more entertainment centers."Con also brings up the fact that Kanto is having economic issues, and a large war would have improved the economy. ... would be destroyed in the same way that the European Powers' economies were destroyed, explaining the 1 incredibly small entertainment industry in Kanto."Now this is an odd argument. First, I never said that Kanto was in economic trouble, I merely said that if Kanto really did go to war, it could not have been in economic trouble because of how good war is for economy. Second, Pro quite literally just said that Kanto was so rich, its economic situation would be comparable to America. And now all of a sudden its so poor it can only afford one entertainment industry. What my opponent said about war being somewhat detrimental to economy is true to a certain extent in that Britain and France did not industrialize to fight the war, but instead taxed, which yield the complete opposite outcome to a industrialized war economy. Same with Czar Nicholas, but not, incidentally, with Hitler or Stalin, who heavily industrialized for the war effort. Stalin enjoyed relative economic prosperity after WW2, while Germany, being the loser and all, was split into 4 different countries as punishment. But if Germany had won, it would have enjoyed one of the best economies in the world, as proven by the fact that Hitler revived the German economy through industry within 3 years, even though Germany was undergoes the worst economic depression in world history. So I still stand by my argument, but I may have been a little bit hasty about it. However, that is more or less irrelevant, as my opponent has pretty much contradicted himself here.Just a reminder, before you vote, remember that the BoP is on Pro, and as such I only need reasonable doubt to win. I apologize if this sounds pretentious, but just want to throw that out there.http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net...http://en.wikipedia.org...http://en.wikipedia.org...