The existence of a "National Pokedex" implies all regions in which it appears are part of the same country (meaning Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Shinnoh, Unova and Kalos). By that logic we can infer that Alola, Galar and Paldea are not.
Unova is explicitly stated to be really far away from the first four regions. They just didn't bother to change the name of the National Dex
>>58347728>being really far away means they can't be part of the same countryWe have nations right now that have territories 12 hours apart from each other, dude.
>>58347742So, Unova's a Japanese colony?
>>58347646they literally just came up with the term back when all mainline games took place in japan-derivative locations, and it took them 2 generations to stop calling it thatand then they overcorrected and figured they'd use it as an excuse to cut content from the new games and rent it to you as a mobile app subscription while they were at it
>>58347869Or vice versa
Unova definitely has more in common with regions like Galar and Paldea than it does the first four regions since it's confirmed that Unovans and Paldeans speak the same language
>>58348506So this confirms it was Unova who Conquered Not-Japan and Not-France. And that Not-Spain canonically colonized all of Not-America. Nice.
>>58348506well, kitakami also speaks the same language as paldea despite definitely being a japanese region. in all likelihood the pokemon world just has a universal language for convenience's sake and kalos having canon ESLs was just them wanting to add flavor they had no intention of actually elaborating on
>>58348565Paldeans also insert random Spanish in their sentences
>>58348565Fantina speaks English in the Japanese version (in the English localization it's changed to French to maintain her "foreigness"Laventon also speaks English in the Japanese version of PLA (he says "wake up" in English when he finds you on the beach)XY has also that tourist who speaks English in the Japanese version and Japanese in the English version. Looker can't understand her, but Emma can, which she says is because she's picked up a lot of different languages from living on the streets
>>58347869>>58348201Clearly poke Japan was conquered in the war
>>58347646>The existence of a "National Pokedex" implies all regions in which it appears are part of the same countryDoes every country on earth having a national flag make them all part of the same country? You're so stupid.
>>58347646It's just an antiquated term that was never updated once Pokemon left the PokeJapan vicinity, and ultimately instead of changing it to "International Pokedex", they cut it entirely.
>>58348795yes, but the point is that characters that are supposed to be from very distant regions with their own languages can still all speak the same language with the occasional exception of a few expressions and phrases thrown in from other languagesKalos is the only instance we've seen of characters acknowledging them as actual, separate languages vs. essentially being regional slang
What exactly even is the specific criteria for what counts as a Region in the Pokémon world?
