The government proudly boasts that society throughout the Pokemon Nation is poverty-free, and that not a single individual has fallen below the poverty line in the last 10 years. This is due to the controlled economy and numerous employment, family and housing programs throughout the country.
However, for hundreds of thousands of people, this popular fairytale is a far cry from the truth. In large cities, groups of people without establishment gather regularly. Many are young, and have been expelled from their school or place of employment. In Isshu, once someone has been expelled or fired, it is illegal to hire them.
But the remarkable thing about these rural and urban nomads who travel mainly on foot throughout the regions is that they are not failures in the eyes of society. They are pokémon trainers. Licensed pokémon trainers. Officially they are not jobless or homeless. Their occupation involves training pokémon, battling, and traveling. Their main objective as put
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