They also somehow manage to have booming seaside cities without any ports, a nearly unlimited flow of goods without most of the artisans that make them, a single statute of limitations for everything from skipping work to attempting to murder the whole population of New Bark Town, a way of providing new trainers with supplies even without knowing that they'll stay long enough to repay that through purchases and services...

[Yep, someone's had time to see some of the cracks in the system.]

...And there was that first Halloween, where all the locals kept repeating the same sentences over and over again, losing any sign of individual personalities in the process. The word 'robot' came up often, back then.