i think the most utopian part of the pokemon world is the careful balance between human advancement and nature. like the fact that humans have maintained a widespread relationship with nature and choose to preserve it even in the presence of large cities and civilization in general. it informs so much about the pokemon universe tbh. and most pokemon plots at their core revolve around the villain trying to disrupt that careful balance in some way which makes a lot of sense
i find pokemon like the grimer line and magnemite line interesting as well because they are pokemon born of pollution and factories and whatnot but people have also learned to coexist with them in a way that contributes back to nature such as muk eating garbage, therefore cleaning it up! like even when there’s negative side effects of human occupation of land it loops back around into supporting nature, too. us real life people need to do a little more of all of the above lol
incredible how much housework you can get done if you take a chance and believe in yourself and also have fifteen other much more pressing responsibilities