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

I would like to start this portion of the debate by clarifying that I have NOT false information to back up my claims. Using this link, which I hope will work this time (. http://factfinder.census.gov...), I have determined the age of childhood to be from ages 5-14, as that was the most accurate demographic I could use on the website. If the link does not work for you, Google census. gov and search on the website to find the data I used. once again, I would like to clarify, that I was NOT using false data at any point in the debate. Con calls into question whether or not 11 years is really recent, but it seems that if I try to challenge this point, this debate will become one of semantics, so I will refrain. Con asks for evidence that Lt. Surge really served in the Kanto military. Using a quote of Lt. Surge: "Hey, kid! What do you think you're doing here? You won't live long in combat! Not with your puny power! I tell you, kid, electric Pok"mon saved me during the war! They zapped my enemies into paralysis! The same as I'll do to you! " we can determine that the military that Lt. Surge served in was the Kanto military. We can do this by examining the line " electric Pok"mon saved me during the war! They zapped my enemies into paralysis! ". Never before has there ever been an American war in which American soldier used Pokemon to zap their enemies into paralysis, in fact, there was never an American war in which American soldiers possessed Pokemon. We only know of 2 places that Lt. Surge has established residence, and that is in America, and in Kanto, and because this war that Lt. Surge speaks of was not an American war, it must have been a Kanto war. Since 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. Con brings up the fact that a very likely reason for the lack of a substantial middle aged population is that they are working. Seeing as how the player character can enter almost every building in the game, this hypothesis could be easily proven or disproven by simply walking into many buildings and seeing if any of this middle aged population were in the aforementioned buildings, doing work. After doing this, I can verify that after searching through many buildings, I failed to find any large number of working middle aged people within the buildings. Seeing how a large number of middle 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. Con also mentions that using the USA as a nation to compare to Kanto is unfair to to the wealth of the USA. I would argue that Kanto is a relatively wealthy nation, and it is thus fair to compare it to the USA. I have come to the conclusion that Kanto is a wealthy nation by looking at the living conditions of the people there. By 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. Con also brings up the fact that Kanto is having economic issues, and a large war would have improved the economy. To prove this hypothesis, Con uses the examples of the USA during WWI and WWII. I would like to counter this hypothesis using the examples of Germany, France during WWI and WWII. WWI left most major European powers in economic shambles, some nations only surviving due to the loans of the USA. The war was so bad for the Russian economy that it caused 2 revolutions, both completely changing the way that Russia was governed. WWII left France and the English Empire in shambles, essentially causing an end to their imperialist powers and shifting the world power to the USSR and USA. The only reason that the USA got so much benefit from both of these wars is because the USA got involved late in both of these wars, allowing them to get the spoils without much of the losses. Since Kanto was directly involved in the war that I am hypothesizing about, it is logical to assume that the Kanto economy would be destroyed in the same way that the European Powers' economies were destroyed, explaining the 1 incredibly small entertainment industry in Kanto.