[Question] YOU are Captain N, The Game Master (Game World You'd LIke to be a part of)

To expand upon Chaotic's choice, the Pokemon world is surprisingly... taoist? Places are simply separated by landmass instead of countries or districts, and there is little to no governance over any area (the closest thing to it would be a town elder who is sought for counsel). Each town is self-sufficient and relatively isolated from any neighboring settlements.

The world became a little bit scarier to live in when one of the evil organizations that pop up every so often almost negated existence, but it'd still be pretty interesting place to live in.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

The problem is that the common peasant (non-trainer) was not allowed to ascend into the rank of samurai (trainer) unless bestowed that rank by a local lord/daimyo (gym leader). Recently, the protagonists of Pokemon have become trainers by chance and have never been given their pokemon by a gym leader.

We also see that gym leaders and the like can challenge the Elite 4 (shogunate) and the Champion (Shogun) at any time, and that would have been considered high treason.

Finally, merchants in feudal Japan were thought to be bottom-feeders and considered the lowest class in Japanese society. Certainly not a "major class of position and rank."

There's nowhere I can't reach.