Title: Standards
Author: Shadow/Phantomness
Pairing: Championshipping (Lance x Red)
Fandom: Pokémon
Theme: #27, Standard of Living
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Pokemon belongs to Nintendo and Shogakukan Comics. This non-profit, non-copyright infringing fanfiction belongs to me under international copyright laws and taking it is plagiarism. Thank you. *Phantomness bows*

Notes: <> for telepathy, ** for thoughts, italics if a pokemon talks. Game-verse

Warnings: AU, het

It was not coincidence that the Standard of Living in Kanto and Johto and Houen far outpaced that of Orre. After all, though Orre sat on one of the largest oil deposits in their area of the world, their wealth was concentrated in a few monopolistic families and much of the population starved – their desert climate was hardly suitable for agriculture and there were scarcely any wild Pokémon to e seen. Even the Sandshrew and Cacnea had been imported from Houen.

Red was just glad he didn’t live there, and when he asked Lance, the Dragon Master agreed, before smiling.

She was glad, also, that they were here. Although inflation might be a constant plague, it was better than subsidizing on minimal calories, living without shelter, and lacking running water and electricity. God only knew how many diseases ran rampant there.

Yes, he reflected, as his wife kissed him, his life wasn’t bad at all.

End Fic

Completed 1/8/07

Edited 8/12/09

Standard of Living (allows you to afford Cost of Living (CPI). Cost of living is the typical consumer’s basket of goods/services. Standard of living is how much of that basket you can afford.

It’s kind of confusing, isn’t it? *Cries*