A History of the Pokémon World
Chapter 1 – A Summary of the nations described in this fanfic – Part I:
The original Pokéstates of the Pokémon games and anime plus the Japanese Federal Empire:
The Pokémon Nation, also Known as Pokémonia, the Pokémonian Empire or the Apostolic Empire of the Pokémon Nation
The main nation of the Pokémon World, the Pokémon Nation is known for being the main part of the Japanese Federal Empire, where not just the seat of the empire, Tokyo, is located, but where the De Jure capital of the Pokémon Nation, Saffron City, is located, adjacent to Tokyo. It is a Federal Constitutional Monarchy, ruled in a personal union with the Austro-Hungarian Empire, by the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, consisting of Four regions: Kanto (Japan's Kanto Region), Johto (Japan's Kansai Region), Hoenn (Japan's Island of Kyushu and the Ryukyu Archpelago) and Sinnoh (Japan's Hokkaido Island and the Southern half of Sakhalin Island). Its history started in the year 98 A.D with its foundation by Japanese prince Yamato Takeru, and ruled by the House of Yamato until 964, when the incipient House of Habsburg, by then, mere counts of Klettgau in the Holy Roman Empire, conquered the country and become its ruling dynasty. The Japanese people who lived in the archipelago, allowed the Germanic settlers coming from regions which included today's Austria and Southern Germany to fix residence in their land, and taught them the arts of Pokémon Training, which assimilated by the Germanic peoples who came to the archipelago, become for the first time wide-spread throughout the world, because before that happened, the art of Pokémon Training, which was known since the times of Cyrus the Great due to the contacts of the silk route, via India and Persia, was largely a privilege of the nobility and the clergy.
Christianity was introduced on the area by the efforts of Saint Augustine of Hippo, and while becoming wide-spread on the archipelago, it tolerated the existence of the local Shinto religious practices, and later of Buddhism, and the Christian Pokémonians often allied themselves with Shinto followers and Buddhists to counter the advance of Christian heresies like Manichaeism, the Nestorianism and Donatism. To this day, Saint Augustine of Hippo is venerated by Pokémonians as the Patron Saint of the Pokémon, and of the Pokémon Nation, due to his efforts in behalf of the Japanese people and Pokémon.
The Pokémon Nation eventually became a melting pot of different nationalities, that include Asian peoples like the Japanese, Chinese, Koreans and Indians, Germanic Peoples like Austrians, Germans, Dutch, English and Irish, Slavic Peoples like Czechs, Poles, Slovenes and Serbians, to name a few, and Latin Peoples like the Portuguese, Spanish and Italian ones, all of them under one nationality, the Pokémonians. Additionally, the Pokémon nation is one of a few countries which have Latin as one between several official languages.
The Orange Islands, or the United Kingdom of the Orange Islands, an archipelago consisting of several islands located between the Kanto Region and the Palau Islands. Once a part of the Pokémon Nation, it was invaded by the Counts of Flanders, which by their turn were supplanted by the Princes of Orange, later rulers of the Netherlands, which rule the archipelago until today, as a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
The Ranger Union, a confederation of small states ruled by German princes under the paramountcy of the King of Bavaria, much in the lines of the former Confederation of the Rhine, from which it was a member state of. Its constituent states are: Orre, a kingdom bordering the Johto Region, ruled by the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Fiore, another kingdom bordering Johto, located on the island of Shikoku, and ruled by the Albertine House of Wettin, Kings of Saxony, Oblivia, a small archipelago ruled by the Princes of Lippe, located south of fiore, Almia, the leading state of the union, ruled by the King of Bavaria, whose northern neighbor is the Sinnoh region of the Pokémon Nation, and Holon, a small state ruled by the Princes of Anhalt, formed out from a loose confederation of small fiefdoms in the territories between Almia and the Latin Kingdom of New Armenia in the island of Honshu above the 40th Parallel.
The Mirage Kingdom, a small independent kingdom surrounded by the Hoenn Region's Lavaridge State, whose ruling family is a vassal of the Pokémon Nation.
The Lucario Kingdom, another small independent kingdom, surrounded by the Sinnoh Region's Veilstone State, ruled by the House of Hesse-Kassel.
Rota, a City-State surrounded by the Kanto Region's Cerulean State, whose ruling family is another vassal of the Pokémon Nation.
The Kingdom of Unova, a Danish – Dominant kingdom located in the eastern tip of the Shandong Peninsula, ruled by the House of Schleswig-Holstein, which inherited it from the Danish House of Oldenburg, which in turn inherited it from the House of Schauenburg – Holstein, which conquered it from the Erdvingian People, also known as the People of the Earth, a Gothic Tribe originating from the current-day territory of Sweden. As a matter of fact, the nation called Unova, originated from the fusion of two countries: The Ancient Kingdom of Unova, founded by the Han Chinese in 206 B.C, and conquered by the House of Schauenburg – Holstein in 1111 A.D, covering the parts of Unova corresponding to the Departments of Striaton, Nacrene, and Opelucid, with its capital at Opelucid City, seat of the Cardinal Archbishop of Opelucid, the Primate of Unova, and the Erdvingian Kingdom, or Kingdom of the People of the Earth, a kingdom founded by a Gothic Tribe originating from the current-day territory of Sweden, which settled in the areas belonging to the departments of Castelia, Nimbasa, Driftveil, Mistralton and Icirrus in the year 336, with their seat in Eindoak Town, near Nimbasa City, led by their king Fridleif Guntharsson, the Warring, whose descendants ruled the kingdom until Siward VII Magnusson, king between 1089 and 1111, whose sons, Hakon Siwardsson, known as the Hero of Truth, and Fridleif Siwardsson, known as the Hero of Ideals, quarreled with each other for the possession of the kingdom, which disrupted the peace between Reshiram and Zekrom, the two Dragon Guardians of the kingdom, and the king wanting the peace for his country, following the advice of a Victini he had befriended, offered his country and crown to Adolf I, Count of Schauenburg and Holstein, which prompted a war of succession between the sons of King Siward and the count from 1111 to 1118 while Hakon reigned in Castelia and Nimbasa as king Hakon VII Siwardsson, and Fridleif reigned as Fridleif XII Siwardsson in Driftveil, Mistralton and Icirrus until the conquest of the divided Erdvingian Kingdom and Ancient Unova in 1118 by Count Adolf, who established the seat of his kingdom at Driftveil City, the capital of King Fridleif, therefore creating an Unified Unova from the De Facto merging of the two kingdoms. After the Protestant Reformation, Unova became a haven for the Danish Catholic population. The Kingdom's Patron Saint is Saint Canute IV, King of Denmark.
The Latin Kingdom of New Armenia, a constituent state of the Japanese Federal empire, founded by Armenian Refugees from the former Kingdom of Cilician Armenia, and Italian merchants in 1574. Initially ruled by the Georgian House of Bagration as a Vassal of the Pokémon Nation, it subsequently expanded until the 40th Parallel, and in 1815, it was freed of its vassalage ties to the Pokémon Nation by the Congress of Vienna, which awarded it to the House of Savoy, which rules it to this day.
