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

"First of all, I would like to clarify that I did not mean that this war had just ended within the last few months or any time as short as that. I had meant that the player character's generation(11 year old) is the first generation to be born in peace time, as in, the war was at least 11 years ago(for the sake of argument, lets assume that it was 11 years ago)."Fair enough. 11 years is hardly recent, but fine."This would also explain Lt. Surge's nickname, "The Lightning American". I doubt that an American soldier in the American military would stand out enough to earn a nickname for being American. More likely, he would stand out as being an American in the Kanto military, and thus get a nickname for it. The fact that the war took place 11 years ago would make Lt. Surge a 19-23 year man around the end of the war (assuming that your statement about his age is correct), and this is optimal military age."Unfortunately, for this statement to be true, my opponent would have to prove that Surge got his nickname from his time in war. It is entirely possible that he got his nickname from his owning an electric gym, and because he happens to be American, he was called by trainers, not other soldiers, as the the "Lightning American". There is no proof that Surge has ever served in the Kanto military, in fact, the war he refers to in his quote could easily be Vietnam or Korea, since Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow were developed around the Cold War time period. "Using this website as my guide (http://factfinder.census.gov......), I ......the population of Kanto is skewed."The link is unfortunately broken so I could not verify your source. So instead I did my own research. But first, the US is an extremely rich country, and a common phenomenon among rich countries is that they have a smaller children to adult ratio than poorer countries do. Since we do not know whether Kanto is a rich country or not, using the US is not exactly fair, especially since it is the richest country in the world at this point. Second, as I did my own research, I found that as of 2014, 26.1% of the US population was in between ages 0-17, not, as my opponent claims, 13%. I could not find a "middle age" demographic, as the websites I went to could not agree on what "middle age" was. However, I must point out that the child population in the US is substantially larger than what my opponent has claimed it to be. Third, as I have pointed out in my previous argument, middle aged guys have better things to do than standing around in tall grass all day and waiting for the occasional unsuspecting trainer, most namely, going to work. Because the age demographic of Kanto is unknown, we cannot know the child to middle age ratio for sure, but determining it based on how many you see while going on your Pokémon adventure is unfair. If you were to walk down a city parkway during the summer, you would see substantially more women and children than you would see adults. Why? Because most of the men are working. Saying that you cannot see the middle aged population and therefore it is non-existent is entirely unfair."Con brings up the Game Corner as an example of the entertainment facility in Kanto. It is not unusual .....fact that 1/9 of Kanto settlements possesses one entertainment facility is not evidence of the success of the entertainment industry."Since my opponent has said earlier that the war he is referring to happened about 11 years in the past, I can just as well say that 11 years is more than enough time for the entertainment industry to get back up on its feet. Since it hasn't really, I can say that Kanto is either in some sort of economic crisis or just doesn't care that much about entertainment for such an industry to be profitable. And before you say the war could have caused the economic crisis, pause for a minute, and realize how good war is for an economy. Heavy industry, low unemployment rates, mass production, flourishing consumerism, etc., are all things that are awesome for an economy and are also things that happen to come with war. Think WW1 and WW2. WW1 led to 10 years of economic prosperity, a time period called the Roaring Twenties, and WW2 effectively brought American out of its Great Depression. The Cold War and the wars in the Middle East were not as profitable because war was never declared and as such the economy could not be industrialized.