From what I can gather the regions are not nations at all but merely how local pokemon sports leagues are organized. They simply play a large role just because our main charaters is a pokemon sports nut and doesn’t care much for politics and there’s also the fact that they really important to society at large due to being the ones in charge of most matters regarding the super powered creatures that have become vital for society to function.
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I think when the dominant military force is whoever controls the strongest pokemon, that the governance is in the hands of the pokemon league.
The de facto rulers would be whoever is controlling the league. They could literally just offer a badge to whoever could controlled x amount of territory in their desired region. It’s actually a pretty solid system, gamify expansionism to the point where the citizens aren’t even able to recognize the governmental body.
Police forces in some of the YouTube (official) series featured SWAT doing room clearing and a bit of B&E with Growlithes, Machamps, and Electrodes against Team Rocket violent terrorists/organized crime. The world appears to be mostly localized citizen militias, with the League system creating a hierarchy of strong tamer/trainers.
Certain regions have quasi monarchies or republics with a figurehead, but are largely decentralized. The lack of monopolization of violence on the part of the nation state allows every region to have its own terrorist group dedicated to using ethereal deity Pokémon to bring about the Mad Maxx days.