>>58007443 (OP)My headcanon is that the Sevii Islands were a dependancy of Tohjo (unified Kanto + Johto), an autonomously administered and lightly populated archipelago - kind of like what the Faroe Islands or Greenland are to Denmark.
Kanto and Johto split because of a civil war several decades ago, and now the Sevii Islands are de jure a dependancy of the Kantonian goverment; but de facto they're even more autonomous.
Culturally, the people are related to Hoennians - they're both semitropical island-dwelling people. Hoenn tried to invade the Sevii Islands during the Tohjoan Civil War, but it dramatically failed in doing so.
Nowadays, there's an increasing independence movement, but there's a lot of uncertainty because the islands are very lightly-populated, rural, and not very economically productive (as opposed to the heavily urbanized Kanto) - many question how could an independent Sevii could economically sustain itself. (Irl, the Izu Islands have ~28,000 people, compared to the 43 million living in the Kantō region. Though in my headcanon, the Sevii Islands are larger than the Izu islands and more populated)
Many islanders also have their doubts on independence, as they fear that one island would become politically and economically dominant over the others.
Almost none of this appears in the games, though. This is all my own autistic headcanon. I enjoy thinking about these kinds of things. Picrel are the flags I made for the Sevii Islands (I also have other flags for other regions).
