#sorry i wasn't sure how to answer some of these so i compensated by rambling a lot sdkfjs

[aotoreiki]

What is the largest city? What is it like?

How do people get around? (ie trains, taxis, ride pokemon)

What do people from other regions think of this region?

Fan region development questions, but I’m answering them for the Ranger series regions

15. What is the largest city? What is it like?

In Fiore, the largest city is Fall City, which is located in the east on the coast. Fall City is a port town and is the central arrival point for people visiting the region, so it has a tourist centre sitting right at the harbour. Fall City is a pleasant place; it has a sort of older European aesthetic to it, and the people living in it enjoy a less rural life than those of the other three Fiore towns. There are quite a few places to go shopping, although no huge malls, and some prominent water features. The weather in Fall City is mild, and it’s named for the season autumn. Like all the towns in Fiore, it has its own Ranger Base, Ranger Leader and distinct Ranger uniform.

In Almia, the largest city is Pueltown. As you could get from its name, it’s a port town. (Spanish puerto = port.) Like Fall City, Pueltown is fairly old, and lagging behind development compared to other regions abroad, but there are many people living in it who find it beloved. It’s a trade point and has two harbours, one on the east coast and the other inland west, with a canal connecting the latter to the ocean. In-game, the topic of Altru Inc. building up and redeveloping the town came up a few times (but they backed off after Drama happened and only a very small number of npcs expressed disappointment over this, most were pretty happy with that outcome).

None of Oblivia’s settlements are really big compared to even the other two regions, but the largest settlement is the Aqua Resort, which is found on the coast of Sophian Island, the largest island of Oblivia. In contrast to Fall City and Pueltown, the Aqua Resort is actually very new, although it still maintains an old-timey aesthetic. It’s popular as a retirement location or a place for people from cities in other regions to move to, if they’re looking for a quiet life away from other things. It’s a very pretty place, with a lot of nice water features, paving work, and gardens.

(Side note - it seems to be a trend in the series where even the largest cities in any of the regions are still noted to be not very modernised, often with an older aesthetic about them, with a lot of paving stones and brick buildings. They also all seem to be port towns but this is pretty common irl too for towns to build up around ports/water sources so it makes sense ig.)

16. How do people get around? (ie trains, taxis, ride pokemon)

Many people travel on foot a lot! The people in all the regions tend to stick to their own towns, so there’s less need for travel if you’re not a Ranger or a tourist. Rangers travel a lot with the help of Pokémon; either wild or in Fiore via the Dragonite Bus service (though you need to be of a certain rank before you’re considered qualified to use it).

There’s also a lot of boat travel in Almia and Oblivia!

Going beyond in-game canon, I imagine there might be stuff like rail lines for public transport in Fiore and Almia. None of the regions’ environments is really friendly to car travel, and within the towns there’s probably less need for it if you’re willing to walk or bike, so I imagine there’s not much of that.

17. What do people from other regions think of this region?

This one I’m not sure about, since main series regions vs ranger series regions hasn’t really been touched on in the series beyond the occasional tiny bit of npc dialogue in the first game, and that was probably partly because it was still a brand new novelty concept at the time...

They’re known for being rural (making them an ideal place for people looking for a country life), having a lot of Rangers around, and having no Pokémon Trainers. Given how training Pokémon is central to most other places in the world, there would be some curiosity on that. They would also be known for their strong environmental focus and the higher number of rare Pokémon living in the wild there compared to other regions. Overall though, I think they’re probably a lot like smaller countries irl that lots of people might not even have heard of or know exactly what they are.

Oblivia is also noted for its archaeological significance, so it’s probably a little more well known in archaeological circles.

Dipping into geography and history headcanons a little... Fiore isn’t very far from Johto, and part of the reason it did develop to have a slightly foreign (European) culture was because of people being deterred from migrating to Johto or Kanto and landing to the west instead. It has a sort of exoticism about it that helps add to its tourist appeal beyond the Rangers and nature.

Almia has a similar thing going on with Sinnoh, except reversed, as Almia already had European influence from when the Almians came over years ago. Although Almia was right there on the southwest end of Hisui, there was already a cultural divide from earlier history that prevented the type of settlement like what the Galaxy Team was about. (I have headcanons and stuff about past conflicts and how southern Japanese region people have already tried to get into Almia first, since it’s actually closer and in theory easier to get to than Hisui, but they met with... a lot of resistance.)

As for between the three regions themselves, Fiore and Almia while not being super close by each other are well acquainted with hearing about each other in large part because of the Ranger Union influence in both regions. Oblivia is kind of isolated and sits by itself a lot.