So, we’ve had regions based on different regions in Japan, the NY-NJ area, France, and Hawaii.

I would like to propose the following idea:

A region based on Australia.

Consider the possibilities–

• Starters: A grass-type monitor lizard, a fire-type wallaby, and a water-type platypus
• Possible featuring of Johto starters (like how Kalos featured the Kanto starters) to put a spotlight back on Totodile (saltwater croc) and Cyndaquil (could be an echidna?) and possibly mega evolutions for the Johto starters’ final forms.
• Kangaskhan and Komala are featured/local mascots
• Ground-type based on a wombat
• Regional Rattata-equivalent based on a brush-tailed possum
• Regional bird based on the zebra finch
• Another bird based off of a cassowary that evolves into one based off of an emu (possibly flying/fighting combo?)
• Introduction of a new, male counterpart to Kangaskhan (like how Miltank was a Gen 2 female counterpart to Gen 1′s all-male Tauros)
• Tasmanian devil-inspired Pokémon (possibly dark-type?)
• Ultra-rare Pokémon based on a thylacine (Tasmanian tiger) that everyone thinks is extinct
• Pokémon based off of a box jellyfish that has an OHKO Poison move
• Diving area where you explore the equivalent of the Great Barrier Reef
• Pseudo-legendary based off of Drop Bears
• Conservation and preservation of local wildlife is the central theme–you are encouraged to catch and transfer invasive species like Rattata (rats), Buneary (rabbits), Tympole (cane toads), etc to their native regions, and there are in-game rewards for doing so.
• Related to the above, the local evil team are some sort of corporate entity trying to expand production into protected areas, insisting that people and domesticated Pokémon are far more important than “wild, dangerous monsters”
• An NPC who helps you fight back and protect the local wildlife loosely based off of Steve Irwin, perhaps driving the point home with him having a Mega Feraligatr (if the “mega-formes-for-Johto-starters” thing could happen) that follows him around like the protagonists’ Pokémon do in Let’s Go, probably the NPC who gives you your Mega Keystone.
• You eventually awaken the regional legendaries, which are based off of actual indigenous legends, to protect the wild regions and defeat the evil team leader.

…I would love to see this at some point.