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 DATA SECTORS
1. Future History .................................................. 03 3. Around the Block ............................................. 38
2. Prime Estate ..................................................... 10 4. Business Unusual ............................................. 49
5. Culture Shock ................................................... 55

HALL OF HEROES

Writer, Designer & Editor - John Caliber

Artwork - Brian Bolland (p2, 4, 25), John Burns (p12),

John Caliber (p14-15), Steve Dillon (p7, 37),
Peter Doherty (p57), Carlos Ezquerra (p6, 8, 11, 23, 28,
33, 35, 58, 60), Henry Flint (p21, 36), Ian Gibson (p13, 28, 34, 35,
47-48, 51), John Higgins (p12), Cam Kennedy (p26, 44-45, 53),
Ian Kennedy (p34), Gary Leach (p27), Paul Marshall (p31),
Mike McMahon (p23, 28, 32, 43, 59), Kevin O Neill (p47),
Arthur Ransom (cover), Kim Raymond (p57), Cliff Robinson
(p30, 52), Will Simpson (p26), Ron Smith (p16, 19, 22, 33, 39,
41-42, 49-50, 54-55), Kevin Walker (p18, 21).

Special Thanks To - Wakefield Carter for FTP assistance,

Grant Goggins for his invaluable 2000AD reference website
& Rebellions Jason Kingsley for his generosity.

Judge Dredd created by

John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra.

THE LAW
Judge Dredd and the Judge Dredd logo are registered trademarks of Rebellion A/S
2006. All characters, situations and illustrations first published in the pages of
2000AD, the Judge Dredd Megazine and related official 2000AD publications are
Rebellion A/S 2006, used with permission on a non-profit basis. All original Drokk
City text and artwork are John Caliber 2006. None of the material featured within
this publication may be replicated in part or in its entirety without the permission
of the respective copyright holder.

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 future
HISTORY
REVISIONS & ANTICIPATION
In the 2005 edition of DC1, this first chapter
was originally the authors attempt to create a
placeholder historical timeline that would create
a sound foundation for the Judge Dredd mythos
in the absence of any official account mounted
by 2000AD. At the time of writing, this author is
thrilled to have discovered that none other than
John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra - the co-creators
MEGA-CITY ONE TIMELINE
of Judge Dredd - have begun work on Judge Dredd: 2023 Construction of Mega-City One begins along the
Origins, the long-awaited prequel to the comics American east coast.
29-year timeframe, which in 2006 will reveal the
most dramatic years of the late Chief Judge Fargos 2031 The Judge system is introduced into Mega-City
career and the founding of the Justice Department One to combat spiralling crime levels. The first
as we know it. Chief Judge is Fargo.
As the series will undoubtably render most of
this authors pre-2099 timeline obsolete, I have 2039 Work begins on the construction of Mega-City Two
edited out my World War III and Fallout era inven- along the American west coast.
tions. It is my intention to revise ths chapter when
sufficient official data has been revealed, loaded 2045 Mega-City Three begins construction, centred
with the history of Mega-City One as envisaged by around the southern American state of Texas.
Wagner and Ezquerra.
Until then, I have elected to retain the follow- 2066 The first Judge clones of Mega-City One are re-
ing timeline text which broaches the subject of leased from the laboratories of Genetic Control
the past in very broad strokes. To aid the reader (GenCon). Judges Joseph and Rico Dredd (clone-
in identifying which entries are canon, and which brothers) are among the first to emerge, youthful
are my own interpretation, I have colour-coded duplicates of Chief Judge Fargo. The Judge clones
the latter in olive. physical and mental age have been artificially ac-
celerated to that of a five-year old child, allowing
the clones to immediately begin judicial training.

2070 The Great Atom War - The clear and present

danger of an imminent attack by enemy nations
prompts American President Robert L Booth to
take pre-emptive action; Booth presses the red
button that triggers a massive nuclear strike. World
War Three begins.

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2071 The Atom War ends in stalemate. Although the
enemys power base has been shattered, the world
has been brought to the brink of nuclear anni-
hilation. America and Russia suffer the greatest
environmental damage, most of their landmasses
reduced to radioactive wasteland. The worlds
mega-cities, protected by laser defence screens,
escape major damage. President Booth is declared
a war criminal. He flees Mega-City One and makes
his last stand at Death Valley, Arizona, protected
by a loyal army of mek-troopers (The Battle Of Ar-
mageddon). The Judges - represented by Supreme
2072 Chief Judge Fargo dies and is succeeded by Judge
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Prosecutor Judge Solomon - find Booth guilty of all
charges made against him. The famous Judgement
Of Solomon decrees that Booth be sentenced to
one-hundred years suspended animation in Fort
Knox. The American people rise up against the
American Senate. Chief Judge Fargo is appointed
the new leader of Mega-City One.
The Great Germ War - Biological weapons re-
leased during the Atom War wreak terrible havoc
among the Americas.
Goodman.
2083 The Second American Civil War - Mega-City
Three declares independence from Mega-Cities
One. This is considered a grievous breach of the
intercity trade agreement forged between the
three mega-cities in the wake of the Atom War.
Mega-City One mounts a blockade around Mega-
City Three until the rogue city surrenders. Failure
to reach a settlement and the rising cost of taxes
heaped on the citizens to sustain the blockade puts
too great a strain on conflict, and so reluctantly,
Mega-City One grants the rogue city-state its in-
dependence. The people of Mega-City Three vote
unanimously that its name be officially changed
to Texas City.
2099 The Statue Of Judgement - is unveiled in Mega-
City One to commemorate the heroism of the
Judges and their unceasing drive to combat crime.
A new public holiday: Justice Day - is created.
The Robot War - The rogue carpenter robot Call-
Me-Kenneth organises a robot revolt against the
humans of Mega-City One. The Judges join forces
with sympathetic robots and rout the enemy robots
after much fighting. Robots gain much mistrust
among the citizens.
Monkey on my Back - Chief Judge Goodman
announces, much to the Justice Departments
consternation, that Mega-City Ones borders will
be opened to the mutant shanty towns surround-
ing the city, and the radlanders to be welcomed as
Mega-City citizens. The city descends into anarchy
as armies of mutant anarchists make their presence
felt. Judge Dredd travels into the Cursed Earth to
investigate the site of a crash-landing made by
the Chief Judges H-Wagon, the time from which
Goodman began to make erratic Judgements.
Dredd discovers that Goodmans mind has been
taken over by a parasitic mutant known only as
the Monkey, and it is the Monkey who now plots
Mega-City Ones destruction. Dredd returns to
Mega-City One with a vial of red dust to which
the Monkey had proven in the past to be violently
allergic - this Dredd uses to kill the entity. With his
mind restored, Chief Judge Goodman authorises
Dredd to exile the mutants for good back into the
Cursed Earth.
2100 The Cursed Earth - Mega-City Two is brought to
its knees by a survivor of the Great Germ War, a
metavirus called 2T(fru)T that transforms citizens
into ravenous maniacs. Mega-City One attempts
to fly the vaccine across, but the Mega-City Two
hoverports are blocked and so Judge Dredd is
dispatched to deliver it by hand. After an epic trek
across the Cursed Earth radiation desert, Dredd
brings salvation to Mega-City Two.
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2101 The Day The Law Died - Upon his return to Mega-
City One, Judge Dredd is framed for the murder of
Chief Judge Goodman and sentenced to life on the
penal moon of Titan. Dredd discovers that Judge
Cal, the insane head of the Justice Departments
Special Judicial Squad, had engineered Goodmans
death and now plans to bring terror to Mega-City
One as its new Chief Judge. Dredd escapes impris-
onment but discovers Cal has brainwashed most of
the Judges into unquestioning subservience. Dredd
allies himself with the few Judges left unaffected
and an Undercity dweller called Fergee to help
form a guerilla army. In the final battle, Cal falls
to his death from the Grand Hall Of Justice in the
grip of Fergee. Judge-Tutor Griffin is declared Chief
Judge Goodmans successor.
Father Earth - A charismatic environmentalist mu-
tant called Father Earth emerges from the Cursed
Earth with a large army of followers, determined
to destroy Mega-City One which they perceive as
a crime against Nature. Father Earths Doomsday
Dogs infiltrate the city and blow up Power Tower,
a power station that harnesses geothermal energy.
A volcanic eruption threatens Mega-City One, but
the Justice Departments Holocaust Squad manage
to plug the leak at the cost of their own lives.
The Black Death - Later that same year, another
Cursed Earth menace - poisonous mutant spiders
- swarm against Mega-City One. A surgical nuclear
strike annihilates this Black Death - and the sector
the spiders had infested.
2102 Judge Death - An otherdimensional, undead entity
called Judge Death stalks Mega-City One, his creed
to destroy the cause of all crime: Life itself. Judge
Dredd imprisons Deaths spirit within the body of
Psi-Judge Anderson, who are then both emtombed
within a block of the Boing.
The Judge Child Quest - The dying Psi-Judge
Feyy predicts Mega-City will be destroyed in the
year 2120 unless the psychic child Owen Krysler
(The Judge Child) can be found to stop it. Judge
Dredd traces Krysler to the Cursed Earth, but the
villainous Angel Gang kidnaps the boy and flee
into deep space. Dredd pursues the Angel Gang to
the frontier planet of Xanadu and retrieves Krysler
after killing the Angel Gang. However, Dredd has
become suspicious of Kryslers morality, a hunch
confirmed when he witnesses Krysler murder Pa
Angel in a sadistic fashion. Dredd decides to leave
Krysler behind on Xanadu in the custody of the
Grunwalder, rather than risk exposing Mega-City
One to the boys malevolent influence.
2103 Captain Skank - Mega-City One suffers a nuclear
attack from the Black Atlantic pirate leader Cap-
tain Skank, who demands a mighty ransom for
the safe return of vital Mega-City One nuclear
technicians. Judge Dredd defeats Skank aboard
his underwater sea fortress and rescues the hos-
tages. During the mop-up operation, it is revealed
that Skank is really a simulacram controlled by
Skanks second-in-command Tuskarosa, an East-
Meg One agent. Dredd returns Tuskarosas corpse
to East-Meg One and demands compensation for
the damage inflicted upon his city. As a gesture of
peace, East-Meg One destroys one of its own city
sectors. The rising tensions between the worlds
two superpowers are however far from resolved.
Judge Death Lives - Judge Death escapes his Bo-
ing prison and is reunited with three other Dark
Judges: Fear, Fire and Mortis. Death and company
initiate their attempt to purge Mega-City One of
all life, but Judge Dredd and Psi-Judge Anderson
once more team up, driving the Dark Judges back
to their home dimension of Deadworld. There,
Anderson uses her psychic powers to channel the
collective hatred of the millions of Deadworld citi-
zens murdered by the Dark Judges - the awesome
outpouring of anger and grief vanquishes the Dark
Judges.
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Block Mania - A string of seemingly unrelated
block wars blossom into a major civil war which
stretches the Justice Departments resources to
breaking point. Even worse, many Judges leave
their posts to join in the violence. The cause of
this block mania is Orlok, a master saboteur and
East-Meg One field agent, who has contaminated
the citys water supply with psychoactive drug
C402, inducing extreme paranoia and ultraviolent
tendencies. Judge Dredd locates and captures
Orlok, but the sabateur has served his purpose,
and Mega-City One is now ripe for invasion from
East-Meg One.
2104 The Apocalypse War - East-Meg One attacks, first
bombarding Mega-City Ones southern zones with
nuclear missiles and then breaching the Atlantic
Wall, flooding the eastern sectors. Chief Judge
Griffin is captured by enemy forces as Judge Dredd
leads the Mega-City resistance. Griffin is brain-
washed and becomes an East-Meg propaganda
tool, forcing Dredd to assassinate him. Dredd then
leads a crack Judge strike force into East-Meg One
airspace and commandeers a nuclear silo. Dredd
turns the missiles on East-Meg One, wiping the en-
emy city from the face of the Earth. The East-Meg
army abandoned in Mega-City One loses hope and
quickly surrenders. SJS Judge McGruder is elected
as the new chief Judge. Four hundred-million
citizens have died during the East-Meg invasion.
 Destinys Angels - On Xanadu, Owen Krysler uses
a magical elixir to resurrect Mean Machine Angel.
Krysler uses Mean Machine as his tool of venge-
ance against Dredd, teaming up brother Fink, the
only other surviving Angel. The Angels kidnap
Dredds maid Maria and his servant robot Walter
to use as bait to lure Dredd. While atempting to
murder the lawman, Fink dies under the mecha-
nised knives of his own torture machine, and Mean
Machine winds up in an iso-cube. Dredd discov-
ers Owen Kryslers involvement in the affair and
orders a pinpoint missile strike, obliterating the
Judge Child.
2106 City of the Damned - Plagued by concerns over
the dire predictions of the late Psi-Judge Feyy and
the recent events surrounding the Judge Child, the
Justice Department authorises a time travel mis-
sion to the future year 2120. Judge Dredd and Psi-
Judge Anderson journey aboard the time machine
Proteus to 2120 and find the city ruined, stalked by
monstrous beasts and rancid with negative psychic
energy. Dredd discovers that an entity called the
Mutant, a creature of awesome psychic power, is
responsible. The Mutant is a deformed clone of the
Judge Child, brought back from the dead by the
Grunwalder, the robot ruler of Xanadu. The Mu-
tant dispatches the future zombie incarnation of
Judge Dredd to kill his past-life incarnation. Dredd
narrowly escapes death as he and Anderson jump
back in time, breaking the Mutants power over
zombie Dredd. Chief Judge McGruder authorises
a final attack on Xanadu, to prevent the Mutants
regeneration and punish the Grunwalder for his
reckless actions.
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2108 The Warlord/A Chief Judge Resigns - Chief Judge
McGruder resigns her post after blaming herself
for the loss of life among Mega-City One citizens
and Judges caused by the psi-warlord Shojan and
his demonic Seven Samurai; Judge-Tutor Silver
is elected in her place. McGruder takes the Long
Walk into the Cursed Earth.
Letter from a Democrat - A group of pro-democ-
racy activists stage a violent takeover of Channel 48
to issue their demands. Judge Dredd executes the
activists on live tri-D, fanning the flames of future
pro-democracy troubles.
2109 Revolution - Huge, peaceful pro-democracy dem-
onstrations take place in front of the Grand Hall
Of Justice. The Justice Department sabotages the
march, making it appear that the demonstrators
have descended into violence and that the Judges
are justified in taking martial action to quell it.
2110 Oz - The Judges come under attack from heav-
ily-armoured Judda, clones of the Justice Depart-
ments finest bloodlines. The Judda are the soldiers
of exiled Mega-City geneticist Morten Judd, dis-
carded by the Judges for his extremist views on
population control. Judds base is located inside
Ayers Rock in the Australian Radback. Judge
Dredd uses Judda technology to teleport into the
enemy headquarters, leading a Justice Department
counterstrike that sees both Ayers Rock and Judds
perverse cult destroyed
2112 Tale of the Dead Man/By Lethal Injection - Judge
Dredd is plagued by doubts concerning the mo-
rality of the Judge system and his place within it.
The matter comes to a dramatic conclusion when
Dredd learns that a former Judda warrior called
Kraken is being groomed to succeed him. Dredd
is assigned to take Kraken out on his Final Street
Assessment. During the test, Dredds one-time
mentor Judge Morphy is found murdered. Thor-
oughly demoralised and grief-stricken by the death
of his old friend, Dredd fails Kraken, then resigns
and takes the Long Walk into the Cursed Earth.
However, Chief Judge Silver overturns Dredds de-
cision to fail Kraken and the young former-Judda
assumess Dredds persona to become the Justice
Departments new figurehead.

Necropolis/Return of the King - The Dark Judges,
their powers boosted by allies Phobia and Nausea
(the Sisters Of Death) transform Mega-City One
into a Necropolis, a city of the dead where the
Judges have been mass brainwashed into mur-
dering the citizens. Judge Dredd returns from the
Cursed Earth, teaming up with the former Chief
Judge McGruder and Psi-Judge Anderson. Phobia
and Nausea are banished, the Necropolis ended
and the four Dark Judges placed in maximum se-
curity confinement. In the absence of Chief Judge
Silver, who has been transformed into a grovelling
zombie by Judge Death, McGruder resumes her
place as Chief Judge. Sixty-million citizens have
died during the crisis.
2113 The Devil You Know/Twilights Last Gleaming
- The pro-democracy movements gain strength,
fuelled by the Judges temporary transformation
from peacekeepers into mass murderers during
the Necropolis. Intense pressure forces the Justice
Departments senior officials to debate the issue.
Judge Dredd promotes the idea of a general elec-
tion to let the citizens decide who will govern
Mega-City One. Many Judges are initially opposed
to this option, and some attempt to put Dredd
out of the argument for good by staging several
assassination attempts. In the end, Dredd gets his
way and Mega-City One has its first election for
decades. Much to the dismay of the pro-democrats,
the Judges are re-elected and Dredd is vindicated,
although resentment towards him still simmers in
the upper echelons of the Justice Department.
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2114 Judgement Day - A time-travelling fugitive, the
necromancer Sabbat, uses his evil powers to raise
the Earths buried dead as an army of zombies,
besieging the mega-cities. The worlds toughest
Judges team up with the time-travelling mutant
bounty hunter Johnny Alpha to fight the endless
tide of bloodthirsty undead. The Judges trace Sab-
bats base to caverns beneath the Radlands Of Ji.
Sabbat is eventually rendered helpless, his power
broken. The population centres of Mega-City Two,
Brasilia, South-Am City, Djakarta, Sino-City One,
Ankara and Samarkand have to be nuked to pre-
vent the zombie armies from drawing new recruits
from the millions of freshly dead.
Mechanismo - To provide backup for the Justice
Departments depleted ranks, Chief Judge Mc-
Gruder authorises the construction of Mecha-
nismo - heavily-armed robot Judges. Initial field
tests however reveal programming glitches that
have disastrous consequences for innocent citizens
caught in the mechanismos path. The project is
put on temporary hiatus.
2115 Inferno - A group of former Judges sentenced to
the Titan penal moon for attempting to murder
Judge Dredd escape from prison and return to
Mega-City One to exact vengeance. Led by Grice,
the renegade Judges release the Meat Virus, a
bacterium that feeds on living flesh, into the city.
Grice and his accomplices are recaptured and
executed.
2116 The Tenth Planet - When Judge Dredd learns the
Mechanismo Project has been secretly resumed
and more of the killer robots will soon patrol the
Mega-City streets, he takes direct action to prevent
it. Dredd is found guilty of attempting to pervert
the course of justice and sentenced to imprison-
ment on Titan. Chief Judge McGruder has Dredd
accompany her as she visits on the way to Titan the
tenth planet of Hestia to sell the colonists a squad
of mechanismos. Malfunctioning mechanismos
sabotage the flight, forcing the spacecraft to crash
land in the Hestian wilderness. Dredd is released
from captivity to save the crash survivors from the
killer robots. He finally convinces the Chief Judge
her project is fatally flawed. Dredd is reinstated as
a Judge.
Parting Shots/The Candidates/Death of a Legend
- Returning to Mega-City One, McGruder resigns,
replaced by the new Chief Judge Volt. McGruder is
later diagnosed with a degenerative brain disease
and considered a candidate for euthanasia. Judge
Dredd refuses to see his former commander-in-
chief diminished in this manner and violates
procedure to take McGruder on one final mission
into the Cursed Earth where she dies a hero in the
field of combat.
2121 Return of the Assassin/The Trial/Trial of ders Sin City quarantined long enough to capture
Strength/War Games/Endgame - Crime lord Orlok, then bombs the pleasure island beneath the
Nero Narcos launches a massive attack on the Black Atlantic to stop the plagues advance.
Justice Department as part of his grand plan to rule
Mega-City One. Using combat-modified municipal 2125 The Trial of Orlok - Orlok is found guilty of capi-
robots, Narcos defeats the Judges and assumes his tal crimes against Mega-City One and executed
place as the citys new overlord. In the meantime, by lethal injection on live tri-D. Mega-City One
Judge Dredd is captured by his old enemy Orlok celebrates.
and brought to trial as a war criminal before the
survivors of East-Meg One. With the help of Psi- 2126 Total War - The terrorist organisation Total War
Judge Anderson, Dredd escapes certain death and attacks Mega-City One, allegedly-hiding twelve
travels to Brit-Cit to muster support for his fight nuclear bombs within its limits. The leaders of
to oust Nero Narcos and his robot armies from Total War demand the Judges exile themselves, or
the Grand Hall Of Justice. The Judges are able the bombs will be detonated. Chief Judge Hershey
to reprogramme the robot armies and turn them complies, while leaving a detachment of Under-
against Narcos, whom Dredd executes. Chief Judge cover Judges behind to assist Judge Dredd locate
Volt, blaming himself for the Judges embarrassing the bombs. All but three are put out of action, the
defeat, takes his own life. The highly-regarded resulting explosions killing millions of citizens.
Street Judge Hershey later assumes the position
of Chief Judge. 2127 After the Bombs - The after-effects of the recent
nuclear terrorism plot continue to reverberate
2123 Helter-Skelter - An army populated by villains among the masses and the Justice Department.
from parallel Earths invades Mega-City One. Led
2128 Origins - Judge Dredd uncovers startling revela-
by a Chief Judge Cal who did not fail to conquer
tions involving the life of the late Chief Judge
the city in his own reality, the dimensional raiders
Fargo and the early years of Mega-City
seek to rob and pillage, then move onto the next
One.
parallel Earth. The villains make a point of execut-
ing each realitys Judge Dredd for the difficulties
he has posed them, and true to form Cal targets
Dredd. The Judge is brought before Cal and
his nefarious allies, but this is their undoing,
for they have let Dredd get too close. Dredd
swiftly delivers justice to the villains one by
one and then banishes Cal to an agonising
dimensional hell.

2124 Sin City - The Justice Department

allows a floating pleasure island
called Sin City to anchor within its
borders, a concession allowing the
Judges access to the city and Ula
Danser, a global terrorist who
is believed to be on board.
During the Judges successful
capture of Danser it is dis-
covered that East-Meg One
assassin Orlok has used
Sin City as a decoy to
allow him to get within
range to try to un-
leash a devastating
genetically-engi-
neered plague on
Mega-City One.
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 PRIME
ESTATE
Mega-City One grew from a multi-state urban metropo-
lis encompassing New York and Washington DC to a
rockcrete and plasteen behemoth totally engulfing the
eastern seaboard of North America. Even so, the citys
800 million population forced its housing capacity to
absolute breaking point. City Hall drew up an emergency
program for territorial expansion along Mega-City Ones
western perimeter; in addition, it offered brave citizens
an attractive lump sum if they were to renounce their
Mega-City One citizenship and seek a new life out in the
Cursed Earth (to become Helltrekkers), an arrangement
which continues to the present day. Many however found
life in the radlands greatly intimidating and gravitated
back to the city, where they set up shanty towns along
the city wall.
The border expansion came to a grinding halt in 2101,
when the demented Chief Judge Cal closed Mega-City
Ones borders within a mile-high plasteen wall to stem the
flow of many thousands of citizens who sought to flee his
tyranny. Cals successor Judge Griffin ordered City Hall
to investigate new housing possibilities within the city
borders and the construction of even larger cityblocks.
A perverse solution to the citys population crisis came
in 2104 when the East-Meg One invasion (The Apocalypse
War) destroyed half of Mega-City One and an equal per-
centage of citizens. The Necropolis of 2112 reduced the
populace by a further 60 million, and many cityblocks left
in an advanced state of decay. The original 800 million
population had been cut down to 340 million, but a uni-
lateral loss of cityblocks and other large-capacity habitats
cancelled out any benefit the reduced census might have
offered. By 2128, Mega-City Ones population nears 400
million, and some estimates have it in excess.
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BASIC GEOGRAPHY
Mega-City One is divided into five regions, each governed
by a Justice Department Region Command responsible
for law and order within that area. Each zone is further
subdivided into a number of sectors, neighbourhoods the
size of a small city complete with its own Justice Depart-
ment sector house. In the wake of the Apocalypse War,
Mega-City Ones sectors were renumbered to take account
of massive losses of city estate to the north and south.
MegSouth had traditionally been the citys industrial
heart, and as such was a prime target for the East-Meg
One nuclear strikes. Fully two-thirds of Mega-City Ones
industrial capacity was demolished and slow to rebuild,
lacking a heavy-duty manufacturing base. An intensive
building program installed new factory estates (dust-
zones) in MegWest, MegCentral and MegEast, close to
the few surviving but crucial MegSouth plants to form a
centralised communications network.
Regions
Mega-City One has five distinct regions (clockwise from
north): MegNorth, MegEast, MegSouth, MegWest and Meg-
Central. Prior to the Apocalypse War, Mega-City One was
composed of 500 plus sectors, but the loss of half the citys
estate prompted a detailed consolidation of territory in
2106. MegCental retained its former boundaries but was
reduced to twenty sectors, numbered concentrically from
Sector 1. The southern boundaries of MegEast and West
were moved north to accommodate the new MegSouth.
Meg-East comprised Sectors 21 to 108, radiating in se-
quence from the eastern edge of MegCentral. MegSouth
(Sectors 109-160), MegWest (Sectors 161-240) and
MegNorth (Sectors 241-300) followed a similar pattern,
except in the north, where sector numbering was on an
east-west basis. A small habitable patch of estate located
in the middle of the northern rad-zone (the Northwest
Hab-Zone) contains sectors 301-305, and politically is
considered part of MegNorth. The sector and boundary
changes were finalised jointly between the Justice Depart-
ment and City Hall, but neither party could have predicted
the furore it would cause among the citizens who had
grown very attached to their traditional sector desig-
nations and were not going to give them up without a
fight. Related arrests quickly spiralled to 78,000, suicides
escalated and 13,000 council officials were murdered or
wounded by angry protesters. Exercising crafty financial
legerdemain, the Justice Department proposed a Sector
Relocation Bonus (a 100-credit bribe) to every adult
citizen, provided they signed a legal document agreeing
to abide by the new sector numbering system. Later, once
the crisis had been averted, the Judges implemented a
single payment Clean Air Tax at the cost of 105-credits
per adult citizen.
Distribution of Wealth and Industry
Is greatest in MegNorth, where the rich-cits (Hightown-
ers) live in luxy-blocks, well-defended by private security
forces. MegEast and MegWest are the poorer regions and
victim to the highest crime rates in the city. MegCentral
- clustered with hoverports - is the citys second wealthiest
region. MegSouth, despite its abundance of dust zones,
has a largely mechanised work force, so most of the
profits generated bypass the minimal human staff, to be
transferred instead into MegNorth bank accounts.
MegEast - was the first region to be constructed. The
project saw a huge investment in local industry. Many
decades later, MegEast retains an industrial capacity
competitive with those of the other precincts, principally
by its distinction as the host to the citys capital of Sector
44 and as the centre of culture and wealth, temptations
the biz-cit community cannot resist. MegEast is home to
some of the largest construction mega-corps in Mega-City
One, who supply massive numbers of manpower and
machinery to any part of the city to undertake cityblock
construction and urban redevelopment programs. Despite
its fame, MegEast suffers a great disparity of wealth
between social classes who have been attracted by the
regions glamourous and edgy reputation, but have only
succeeded in overloading the local service and housing
industries. This poverty gap is most prevalent along the
MegEast/MegNorth border.
MegSouth - succeeded MegEast as the citys prime
location for modern industry. Bolstered by intense invest-
ment in the newly-relocated region after the Apocalypse
War, an mergency manufacturing base was established
to repair the citys shattered infrastructure and to supply
life-essential provisions such as fresh food and uncon-
taminated drinking water to MegWest and MegEast south.
MegSouth has maintained its reputation as a corporate
force to be reckoned with, and is home to the headquar-
ters of many of Mega-City Ones largest mega-corpora-
tions as well as endless tracts of industrial estate.
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Map Mishaps
There have been few official maps of Mega-City
One, and they unfortunately do not agree on the
citys exact dimensions or perimeter. The most-
detailed was published back in the 1982 Judge
Dredd Annual, documenting Mega-City Ones pre-
Apocalypse War years. Later maps are not any more
enlightening, particularly when documenting the
extent by which Mega-City Ones south and western
borders extend into the Cursed Earth. The story Fog
On The Eerie had an expedition of Judges travel
across the Cursed Earth to the banks of Lake Erie,
contradicting previous maps which place a section
of the city directly over the Great Lakes! This author
has carefully studied maps of Americas eastern
seaboard and reworked the 1982 Judge Dredd An-
nuals map in accordance, making allowance for the
Great Lakes and the devastation still felt from the
Apocalypse War. In Drokk City, Lake Ontario has
been drained, and sited in its basin is Crater Lake,
a shanty-town.
MegWest & MegNorth - are similar in standing, both
with a higher ratio of residential habitats to industry,
although MegNorth can boast a slightly higher quality
of living than its neighbour, as mega-corp executives
mega-corporations choose to site their opulent homes as
far from the grimy skylines of the MegSouth dust zones
as possible.
MegCentral - Is home to Mega-City Ones profes-
sional transients, travellers from other parts of Earth and
beyond. The zone is crowded with major hoverports and
astroports, a navigational nightmare ironically forced into
such close company by stringent health and safety laws
that forbid direct expansion into surrounding residential
regions. The ports of MegSouth are primarily designed
to accept hoverships, hovertankers and other heavy in-
dustrial vehicles.
CITY LEVELS
From its inception, Mega-City One was going to be
huge, a population centre home to an unprecedented
number of citizens paired to a radical conceptual rebirth
of high-rise living. The mega-city was born in New York
State, advancing south to annex Washington DC and sur-
rounding states, pulverising the Appalachian Mountains
and reconstituting the former landmark as raw build-
ing material for cloudbusting cityblocks and glistening
mega-corp citadels. Overcrowding and decades of estate
attrition caused by war, plague and terrorism placed an
unimaginable pressure on Mega-City society, and insti-
gated movement towards a literal vertical class system.
The vast majority of citizens, unemployed and forgotten
by all but their Welfare cheques, live in the citys lower
levels. The wealthier a citizen finds himself, the
higher he can afford to live, above the noise of
the incessant traffic and far from the snares of Typical Lowtown estate -
crime; at least, that is the dream. decaying tenements amid
Mega-City One is divided vertically into two reclamation projects.
levels of social aspiration, designated Hightown
and Lowtown.

Lowtown
Geography - Lowtown occupies the bot-
tom two-thirds of the Mega-City One vertical
landscape, both architecturally and financially.
It is poor, noisy and dirty. To be pedantic,
the middle strata of Mega-City Ones vertical
society is identified on the maps as Midtown,
but as far as the citys movers and shakers are
concerned, if it isnt Hightown, it may as well
be Lowtown.
The Locals - Most of the Judge Dredd stories
featuring average citizens take place in and
around Lowtown. The lower levels of most cityblocks are
inhabited almost exclusively by citizens dependant on
Welfare cheques who are serviced by local businesses and
cut-price branches of larger corporations offering their
clients a tantalising glimpse of a better life they will never
achieve. Planning restrictions and the combined pressure
from Hightown planning committees ensure the noise
and pollution generated by the factory blocks are kept far
below their robot-valeted luxy-apts. The only eye sores
allowed at this height are the towering masts, refuelling
stations and off loading bays for the citys slow-moving
fleet of heavy goods hoverships.
Crime - Poverty relative to the wealth enjoyed by
Hightown perpetuates frustration, antisocial behaviour
and simmering aggression among the Lowtowners, and
helps feed a thriving criminal underworld.
City Bottom - The ground level upon which Mega-City
One stands is metres-thick rockcrete separating the future
metropolis from the dark depths of Old America, long-known
to mega-city citizens simply as the Undercity. Tweenblock
plazas, pedways, shopplexes, leisure centres, dust zones,
hotels, bars and nightclubs, as frequented by citizens day
and night, fight for space in the cityblocks shadows. Beyond
the hectic daily pace of life of City Bottom exist swathes of
desolation and poverty, spawned by war, neglect and housing
shortages. Among the rockcrete foundations, slabpackers
squat in cardboard cities while fugitive criminals hope to
hide from the Judges, fighting for their very survival against
sub-hume and hideously mutated animals. Scars of the
Apocalypse War are still evident: No-Go zones containing
the few surviving rad-pits too dangerous to decontaminate
and areas littered with unexploded war ordnance. Within
protective electro-cordons, DP (displaced persons) camps
offer the most basic of living conditions to those who lost
their cityblock apartments to destruction.

A sub-hume cannibal gang

strikes at a slabpacker in the
shadows of City Bottom.

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 Lowtown Citizens
(known to Hightowners
as Slummies)
Not all areas of City Bottom are sweat boxes of humanity
or slums. Remnants of the old towns (the aptly nicknamed
Old Town) persist like weeds, stagnating wood and brown-
stone tenements home to eldsters who refused to be re-
housed, and have been virtually forgotten by the Judges.
Hightown
Geography - Hightown is the topmost strata of any
cityblock where only the financially well-endowed can
afford to reside. The term may also correctly be used to
describe any property of expense, whether it be a luxy-apt,
a luxy-block (cityblock reserved entirely for bottomless
wallets) or any establishment where one cannot enter
unless accompanied by a personal entourage of valets
and bodyguards. Ever since the Weather Control network
began to falter, Hightown has suffered some of the worst
excesses of acid rain, electromagnetic disturbances and
radiation fallout. The residents - never short of a credit
or two - quickly ordered polysteel block shields erected
to protect their interests; if Lowtown gains any benefit
from the shields, it is purely incidental.
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Hightown Citizens
(known to Lowtowners
as Rich-Cits)
The Locals - Hightown is regarded as prime estate
among the rich-cits and mega-corp executives who are
willing to pay whatever it takes to escape the crime and
squalor of the lower levels. A typical Hightown society is
composed of biz-cits, entertainment industry celebrities
(actors, tri-D show presenters, quack astrologers and
sports stars), City Hall councillors and citizens whom For-
tune has smiled on (Megalot winners). The old disparities
between talent and wealth continue unabated in Mega-
City One; the good-looking and loudest of mouth get the
most media coverage and money, while the intelligentsia
(scientists, academics, rights campaigners and philoso-
phers) struggle on Welfare or meagre grant payments. In
Hightown, image is everything, reflected by the size of
ones luxy-apt, personal fashion, entourage, number (and
scale) of parties and the number of hoverlimos docked at
ones private hoverport at any one time.
Crime - Hightown offers much of value to criminals, as
all its residents can expect to be loaded at all times with
the latest in personal technology and garments designed
by the worlds leading fashion houses. Unfortunately for
the criminal, Hightowners also come replete with pri-sec
security forces. Burglars tempted to ransack a luxy-apt
will find their way barred by layers of electronic security MEGA-CITY 1
systems, their every move captured on security camera as of January 2128
and relayed to the Block Judge. Criminals coming into Meg
Hightown from the outside world have a very challenging North
Canadian Northwest
time ahead of them, and many lose heart, retreating to Hab-Zone (241-300)
Wastes (301-305)
Lowtown for easier pickings.
Crime, however, does not attack by one route alone,
and Hightown has its share of corruption within the secu-
rity walls, social niceties and public esteem. Big business
is unable to function without some degree of immorality Crater Meg
- whoever got rich by being good? With enough credits Lake East
to grease the backhand of Judge Death himself, the bas- Lake (21-108)
est of sins are sanctioned on a regular, almost mundane Erie
Long
frequency and Mega-City One knows no differently; the Island
celebrities keep smiling and flashing their wealth, poli- Sector
Meg
ticians pass out hollow and reassuring soundbites like West
mock-choc and business executives smile, give no com- (161-240)
ment and allow themselves to be gently eased into their Meg
waiting hoverlimo by a team of immaculately dressed, Central
scandalously underpaid Mex-Cit valets. (1-20)

Black
Atlantic
CITY MAPS Ocean
This section offers the most-detailed maps of Mega-City Meg
South
One ever published, to which a comprehensive listing of
(109-160)
cityblocks, businesses, landmarks and establishments of
repute (or disrepute) is attached.
The following content is the result of intensive re-
search into just about every issue of 2000AD and the Judge
Dredd Megazine, as well as sci-fi specials, mega-specials,
annuals, yearbooks and Daily Star newspaper strips.
The data is correct up to and including city events set in Sector 4* - Boingbowl (d. 2126), Inter-Space Corporation
HQ & Private Landing Pads, Janet Jackson Blk (pre-a),
January 2128. Most of the locations visited in Judge Dredd
Ohio State Precinct.
were never officially granted a sector number, prompting
*Partially-destroyed in 2126; widespread collateral damage and
this author to make an educated guess as to their place- radiation contamination.
ment within Mega-City One, based on vague references
Sector 5 - Central Hoverport.
made in the comic strips and estimated proximity to other
landmarks. Sector 6 - Dean Gaffney Blk (pre-a), Feinstein Blk (re-a).
Sector 7 - Ape Town, David Hedison Blk (post-a), Dr.
Map Key - (d.) year destroyed Spock Megaplex, Slabyrinth.
(post-a) post-atomic
Sector 9 - Bleeke Mansion, Gordon Banks Blk (pre-a),
(pre-a) pre-atomic
(r.) rebuilt
Pudge Rodriguez Blk (post-a).
Sector 10 - Earl Slick Blk (pre-a), W. E. Johns Blk (pre-a),
St. Peter Root Hospital.
MegCentral (Sectors 1-20) Sector 11 - Inskip Warehouse.
Sector 1 - Castenada Square, Deb Pfeiffer Blk (pre-a), Sector 12 - Bennet Beeny Blk (post-a), Lon Chaney Blk
The Frankie Blk (post-a), Fred C. Dobbs Blk (pre-a). (pre-a), Peter Weller Blk (pre-a).
Sector 2* - Applied Genetics Facility (d. 2126), Bill Bixby Sector 13 - Al Grant Vue-Rise (pre-a), Mika Pederson
Blk (pre-a), Sinkler Heights. Blk (post-a).
*Partially-destroyed in 2126; widespread collateral damage and
radiation contamination. Sector 15 - Bypass Building, Dyson Rest Home, Flip
Rogan Blk (post-a), Horton Towers (post-a).
Sector 3 - Johnny Johnson Blk (pre-a), Linda Nolan Blk
(post-a), Phil Roth Blk (pre-a), Suze Bote Blk (pre-a). Sector 17 - Eli Wallach Blk (pre-a), Robert Stackers
(post-a).
Sector 16 - Bleakview Hotel, Funtazia Fun Park, Skyview
Hotel.
Sector 19 - Diego Garcia Blk (d. 2106), Pedro Martinez
Blk (post-a), Tactical Command Bunker Central, Tom
Mahon Blk (post-a).

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 This map details the re-
lationships between all
305 of Mega-City Ones
sectors.

The light-coloured lines

denote sector borders; the
black lines are regional
borders. At street level,
there is no such formal
designation, and avenues
of vehicle and pedestrian
pass unimpeded from one
sector to another.

The various patches

shaded in green designate
different periods in Mega-
City Ones construction
and expansion; the darker
the shade, the older the
development.

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 Sector 20 - Ferraro Housing Complex (pre-a), Frisbee
Stackers (post).
MegEast (Sectors 21-108)
Sector 21 - Alvin Toffler Blk (pre-a), Andy Dante Blk
(pre-a), Mega-City Chamber Of Horrors, Moose Skowran
Blk (pre-a).
Sector 22 - Alien Town (feat. Extraterrestrial Trading &
Social Club), Meg-Oil Central Depot, Mildred Muncy Blk
(post-a), Roy Rogers Blk (pre-a).
Sector 23 - Boyson Conapts (post-a), Don Lawrence Blk
(post-a), Shirley Temple Blk & Fun Park (post-a).
Sector 24 - Frank Nitti Blk (pre-a), Joe Bananas Blk
(pre-a), Marg Rutherford Blk (post-a), Slater Housing
Project (post-a).
Sector 25 - Charlie Sim Blk (pre-a), Hymie Goering Blk
(pre-a), Ian Beale Blk (pre-a), Norman P OConnor Blk
(post-a).
Sector 26 - Boris Karloff Conapts (post-a), Cybo-Comp
HQ, Hillcrest Rise Luxy-Estate (post-a), Larry Hagman
Conapts (post-a, d. 2105), The Megalopolis.
Sector 27 - Roger Hollis Blk (post-a), Simp Tank, Steve
Coogan Blk (pre-a).
Sector 44 central . Mega-City Ones
oldest sector, home to the Grand Hall of
Justice, the Statue of Judgement and the
relocated Statue of Liberty (all pictured).
The Hudson Inlet, an artificial river, is in
the background; it allows for the larger
sea freighters to move cargo directly to
inland storage facilities.
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Sector 28 - Curbishley Court (pre-a), Hi Lo High-rise
(post-a), Rand Blk (post-a), YMJC Stacker.
Sector 29 - Clapton Tower Ecom-units, Cuckoos Nest
District (pre-a), MacMurphy Blk (pre-a), Mark Clark
Blk (pre-a), Roy Orbison Blk (pre-a), T. Dan Smith Blk
(pre-a).
Sector 30 - Crockery Nook Blk For The Extremely Aged (pre-
a), George Orwell Blk (post-a), Pearl Buck Blk (pre-a).
Sector 31 - Bishop Mounsey Blk (pre-a), Chester Dogg
Blk (pre-a), Hoverport-2, Malcolm X Conapts (pre-a),
Melvin Bragg Blk (post-a).
Sector 32 - Android Park, Chrysler Heights, Coney
Arches, Conrad Conn Hotel, Edmundo Rey Blk (post-a),
Fidel Square, Harry Burniston Blk (pre-a), Jake Lamotta
Blk (pre-a), Mike Dolling Blk (post-a), Tex Toomie Blk
(post-a), Victor Mature Blk (post-a).
Sector 33 - Antonia Fraser Blk (pre-a), A S Byatt Blk
(pre-a), Fay Weldon Blk (pre-a), Martin Amis Blk (pre-a),
Salmon Rushdie Blk (pre-a).
Sector 34 - Cecil B. DeMille Blk (pre-a), Karen Berger
Blk (post-a), Pavarotti Blk (post-a).
Sector 35 - Bruce Kent Blk (pre-a), Helmsley Lux-Habs
(post-a), Inigo Bing Blk (pre-a), Steve Davis Blk (pre-a).
Sector 36 - Apache Rise, Gang Alley, Oprah Winfrey Blk
(pre-a), Robert Morley Blk (post-a).
Sector 37 - Dwight D Eisentower (pre-a), Gordon Liddy
Blk (post-a), Yvonne DeCarlo Blk (ruins).
 Sector 38 - Al Bundy Blk (post-a), Mega-Media, Inc.
Building, Melvin Hayes Conapts (pre-a), Tom Sharp Blk
(post-a).
Sector 39 - Den Watts Blk (pre-a), Emily Post Blk (post-a),
Fountain Of Yooth, Jerry Thomas College of Barkeeping,
Phoenix Scrap, Sylvia Krystel Conapts (pre-a), Tony Ben-
nett Blk (pre-a), Zander Bleak Building.
Sector 40 - Andy Stewart Blk (pre-a), Cubbi Broccoli
Blk (post-a), Des OConnor Blk (post-a), Iso-Block 666,
Noxem Plant, ODilligans Nightclub, Oxypool.
Sector 41 - Arthur Koestler Blk (post-a), Channel 9 Build-
ing, Elmer Gantry Blk (post-a), Hayte Street, House Of
Frendz, Wiffin Gas Headquarters.
Sector 42 - Claude Bigot Blk (post-a), Gil Gerrard Me-
morial Spaceport, Kurt Russell Blk (pre-a), Phil Seymour
Hoffman Blk (pre-a), Planet Gary, Tommy McArdle Blk
(pre-a).
Sector 43 - Billy Graham Blk (post-a), Castro Skyrise
(pre-a), Hardy Kruger Blk (pre-a), Marlon Brando Blk
(pre-a), Patsy Ann Noble Blk (pre-a), Sonny Bono Prob-
lem Blk (d. 2103).
Sector 44 - Academy Of Law, Aftermath Square, Bo-
ingarama, Bolger Dult Rehab, Broadway Plaza, Buck
Chegwin Blk (post-a), Casey Jones Blk (pre-a), Charles
Atlas Bridge, Ed Ball Blk (post-a), Ernest Borgnine Blk
(pre-a), Foster Grant Blk (post-a), Grand Hall of Justice,
Grover Cleveland Blk (pre-a), Hudson Inlet, Jay Silver-
heels Condo (pre-a), Kennedy Spaceport, Ken Kercheval
Blk (pre-a), Marty Feldman Blk (pre-a), Mega-Times
Building, Nixon Plaza, Norman Pitlik Blk (post-a), Old
New York Street, Quite Nice Bar, Rita Tushingham Blk
(pre-a), Rowdy Yates Conapts (pre-a), Rykers Shuggy
Hall, Shapiros Kosher Hottie House, Statue of Judgement,
Statue of Liberty, Sylvia Plath Blk (post-a), Times2, The
Vibe-bowl, Wall Street.
Sector 45 - Billy Reich Blk (pre-a), Breaker Canyon
Estate (pre-a), Gil Favour Blk (post-a), Martin Scorcese
Blk (pre-a), Xenda Heights (pre-a).
Sector 46 - Marx Estate (feat. Chico Marx Blk, post-a;
Groucho Marx Blk, post-a; Harpo Marx Blk, post-a; Karl
Marx Blk, post-a), Yeltsin Building.
Sector 47 - Aggro Dome (pototype, ruins), Brynner
Hospice, Giles Brandreth Blk (pre-a), Norman Mailer
Blk (post-a).
Sector 48 - Billy Carter Blk (post-a), Joe Madden Blk
(post-a), Ramon Navarro Blk (post-a), Ridley Estate
(pre-a), Sergei Eisenstein Blk (post-a).
Sector 49 - Darrow Luxy-Complex (post-a), St John
McShane Hospital, Sump Memorial Auditorium, Trisecta
District (pre-a).
Sector 50 - Atlantic University, Newsmeg Building,
Romano Tower Luxy-Blk (post-a), Schwartz Conapts
(post-a).
Sector 51 - Dead Juves Curve, Hamilton Heights (post-
a), The Jungle (ape colony), Matt Wagner Blk (post-a),
Robert Kilroy-Silk Blk (pre-a).
Sector 52 - Avenue Of Brotherly Love, Hells Junction,
Jack Ruby Blk (post-a), Tristan Kennedy Blk (post-a).
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Sector 53* - Edmundo Ross Blk (post-a), Plumb Tower,
Stonehouse Building, Tomb Of The Unknown Citizen.
*Detailed comprehensively in DC5.
Sector 54 - Christine Keeler Blk (post-a), Flakey Foont
Blk (pre-a), Nesta Webster Blk (pre-a), Veal Crate Bar.
Sector 55 - Bough Estate (feat. Russell Grant Blk, pre-a;
Deb Rix Blk, pre-a; Frankie Wilson Blk, pre-a), OK Corral
Bar, Piedmont Apartments (post-a).
Sector 56 - Alien Zoo, Dunc Renaldo Blk (pre-a), Mega-
City Zoo, Ronald Reagan Eld-Shelt (pre-a).
Sector 57 - The Annie Hall, Paradise Heights (post-a).
Sector 58 - Ferd Marcos Blk (pre-a), Fidel Ramos Bock
(pre-a), Imelda Marcos Blk (pre-a), Ninoy Aquinos Blk
(pre-a).
Sector 59 - Billy Minto Blk (post-a), Dane-Tech, Warhol
Wonderama.
Sector 60 - Beaverton Dust-Zone, The Chow Dome.
Sector 61 - Central Combat Depot (Justice Dept), Damon
Runyan Blk (post-a), Ida Lupino Blk (pre-a), Moonray
Tower.
Sector 62 - Bernie Beesley Blk (pre-a), Schmaltz Estate
(feat. Frank Hovis Blk, pre-a; Erich Segal Blk, pre-a).
Sector 63 - Gordon Bennet Blk (post-a), Morgan Fairchild
Blk (d. 2106).
Sector 64 - Julian Cope Blk (pre-a), Skyhill Conapts
(post-a), Steppleman Blk (pre-a).
Sector 65 - Deena Walker Blk (post-a), Lenny Brezhnev
Blk (post-a), Mega-Tech.
Sector 66 - Alan Donaldson Blk (post-a), Big-1 Publish-
ing, Kevin Keegan Blk (pre-a).
Sector 67 - Eddy Poe Heart Clinic, Eldon Lee Blk (post-a),
Lenny Bernstein Blk (pre-a), Russ Tamblin Blk (pre-a).
Sector 68 - Marcus Welby General Hospital, P J Proby
Blk (pre-a).
Sector 69* - Chris Lee Blk (pre-a), Doringo Lux-Apts
(post-a).
* In Drokk City continuity, Sector 69 was formally abandoned
by the Justice Department in 2122 (see The Devil Wants Out &
The First Law PDFs) and left to the mercy of the mega-mobs.
Sector 70 - Rancho Hi-Rise (post-a), Wounded Heart
Private Cemetery.
Sector 71 - Forever Homes For The Semi-dead, Hi-Funk
Conapts (post-a).
Sector 72 - Bill Burroughs Boulevard, Channel 99 Build-
ing, Rene Enriquez Blk (post-a).
Sector 73 - Benny Hill Blk (d. 2103), Jimmy Clitheroe
Blk (d. 2103), Inoira Ghandi Blk (d. 2103), Linda Carter
Blk (d. 2103), Sam Snead Blk (d. 2103), John Wayne
Blk (d. 2103).
Sector 75 - Buzby Berkley Blk (post-a), Shady Duncs
All-U-Can-Drinkerie, St Magnus Pike Hospital.
Sector 76 - Huck Widney Blk (pre-a), John Major Blk
(pre-a), Zsa Zsa Gabor Blk (pre-a).
Sector 77 - Devils Island, Herbie Hancock Blk (pre-a),
Weber Heights (pre-a).
 Sector 108 coastline. A section of the
Mega-Docks can be glimpsed at the bottom
of the image. The Blackwater Bridge
(bottom right) connects the mainland with
Penguin Crossing, a large traffic island.
Sector 78 - Chuck Dickens Blk (post-a), Dramarena,
Joshua Jebbs Blk (post-a).
Sector 80 - Cannibal Club, Emphatically Yess Building,
Maybehouse.
Sector 81 - Old Town General Hospital, Scott Joplin
Conapts (post-a).
Sector 82 - Mavis Riley Home for the Debilitatingly
Bewildered (pre-a), Harry Hyams Blk (post-a; d. 2104,
r. 2105), Remy Martin Blk (pre-a), Resyk East.
Sector 83 - Mega-Penitentiary, Mega-School 3.
Sector 84 - Ben Franklin Blk (post-a), Dan Quayle Blk
(post-a), Mega-Central Station (subway zoom).
Sector 85 - Westwood Tower Luxy-Blk (post-a).
Sector 86 - Mardi Indo-Plex, Petula Clark Reconstructs
(d. 2104, r. 2106).
Sector 87 - Bart Simpson Blk (pre-a), Christian Barnard
Blk (pre-a), G W Bush Blk (post-a), Hen Broon Towers
(pre-a), The Little Bowl, Midnite Towers (luxy).
Sector 88 - B D Rickenbacker Blk (post-a), Chinatown
East (Sinotown).
Sector 89 - The F Loyd Mazny Scheme (The Maze; oc-
cupies entire sector; prohib zone: no entry).
Sector 90 - Fred Nietzsche Blk (pre-a), Hank Wangford
Blk (post-a), Tactical Command Bunker East.
Sector 91 - Biggie Smalls Blk (post-a), Nick Craske Blk
(pre-a), Wes Craven Conapts (pre-a), Verona Spock Blk
(pre-a).
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Sector 93 - Badford Stuy Precinct, Betty Boop Blk (post-a).
Sector 94 - Palston Apartments (post-a), Werner Von
Braun Conapts (post-a).
Sector 95 - Barnaby Jones Blk (post-a), Buddy Ebsen Blk
(post-a).
Sector 98 - Derek Hatton Blk (pre-a), Mario Puzo Blk
(pre-a), William Hague Blk (ruins).
Sector 99 - Bob Burden Blk (post-a), Canaford Plaza,
Thom Yorke Blk (post-a), United Munce Building.
Sector 100 - Hottie U, The Island, Transatlantic Tunnel
Entrance.
Sector 101 - Atlantic Purification Plant, Bob Duran Blk
(pre-a), Eldridge Bridge.
Sector 102 - Jimmy Tarbuck Blk (pre-a), Philadilly Pre-
cinct.
Sector 103 - Barryo Housing Complex (feat. Andrew
Ridgeley Blk, pre-a; George Michael Blk, pre-a).
Sector 104 - Adolf Hitler Blk (post-a), Apocalypse Monu-
ment, Ed De Bono Blk (post-a), Lee Majors Blk (pre-a).
Sector 105 - Costa Del Meg.
Sector 106 - Bill Bailey Blk (d. 2104), Old Peart Institute
for the Criminally Insane, Shark Club.
Sector 107 - Blktops Eldsters Resting Home (pre-a), John
Stanley Blk (post-a).
Sector 108 - Blackwater Bridge, Hoagland Heights (pre-
a), Hellebore Apartments (post-a), Penguin Crossing,
Steve McQueen Blk (pre-a), Tonytown (post-a).
 MegSouth (109-160)
Sector 109 - Arnold Grove Blk (post-a), Vic Hugo Blk
(post-a).
Sector 110 - Billy Butlin Blk (post-a), The Crater Bowl,
Del Shannon Blk (post-a).
Sector 111 - Beecher Conapts (pre-a), Mary Michelson
Blk (pre-a), Mitzi Gaynor Blk (pre-a).
Sector 112 - Dod Custer Blk (pre-a), Frank Zappa Blk
(post-a), Jed Clampett Blk (pre-a).
Sector 114 - Heavens Reach, Sky High Rise (d. 2105).
Sector 115 - Munce-Co Factory Estate.
Sector 116 - Jess Willard Blk (pre-a), Polanski Sprawl
(post-a).
Sector 117 - Power Tower 1 (d. 2101, r. 2106).
Sector 118 - Anders Estate (pre-a), Billie Holiday Blk
(post-a), Rhonda Fleming Blk (post-a).
Sector 119 - Elvis Presley Blk (pre-a), Donald Neil Blk
(pre-a), George Reeves Blk (pre-a), Resyk South.
Sector 122 - Jimmy Stuart Blk (pre-a), Martin Candor
Blk (pre-a).
Sector 120 - Blunkett Tower (pre-a), Greenham Civil
Park, Kaufman Projects (post-a estate).
Sector 121 - Killkraze Combat Park.
Sector 122 - Nerdco Building.
Sector 123 - Clint Eastwood Blk (pre-a), Jackson Five
Lux-Development (feat. Jackie, Jermaine, Marlon,
Michael & Tito, all post-a), Jessica Simpson Blk (post-
a), Nigel Tufnel Blk (pre-a), Terry Wogan Blk (post-a),
Timmy Mallett Blk (pre-a), Vinnie Jones Blk (pre-a).
Sector 124 - Hoverdrome.
Sector 126 - Dinosaur World Theme Park.
Sector 127 - General Arms Building, Joe Bloggs Blk
(pre-a), Slim Whitman Blk (pre-a).
Sector 132 - Bronte Conurb (feat. Anne, Charlotte &
Emily, all pre-a), Fats Domino Blk (post-a).
Sector 133 - Bob Calvi Blk (pre-a), Jimmy Ellroy Blk (pre-
a), Paul Verhoeven Blk (post-a), Ray Kroc Blk (pre-a).
Sector 143 - Dermot Kelly Blk (post-a), Doris Day Blk
(post-a), Jackie Onassis Hab-Developments (post-a).
Sector 146 - Atlantic Central Hoverport.
Sector 147 - Folly Heights (post-a), Horace Bachelor Blk
(post-a).
Sector 148 - Eisenhower General Hospital, Power Tower II.
Sector 149 - The Cauldron (feat. Arturo Askey Blk, post-
a; Derek Batey Blk, pre-a; Perry Como Blk, pre-a; Reno
Conapts, pre-a), Tactical Command Bunker South.
Sector 151 - Poughkeepsie Apartments (post-a) Stephen
Hawking Blk (post-a).
Sector 152 - Lazarus Labs.
Sector 155 - Greta Garbo Blk for Wayward Eldsters (pre-a).
Sector 156 - Cramptown Dust Zone.
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Radlands Beyond South Wall* - Dave Attenborough Blk
(d. 2104), Sawney Bean Blk (d. 2104), Bugs Bunny Blk
(d. 2104), Jacques Cousteau Blk (d. 2104), The Flea Pit
(d. 2104), Giant Haystacks Blk (d. 2104), Iso-Block 44
(d. 2104), Bob Oppenheimer Blk (d. 2103, r./d. 2103),
Magnus Pyke Blk (d. 2104), Billy Smart Blk (d. 2104),
Miriam Stoppard Blk (d. 2104).
* Destroyed during the Apocalypse War.
MegWest (161-240)
Sector 161 - Dinsdale Mansion, Don Trump Tower.
Sector 162 - Bob Muldoon (post-a), Walt Gropius Blk
(post-a).
Sector 164 - Third Eye Insurance Company.
Sector 165 - Elia Kazan Blk (pre-a), Screaming Jay
Hawkins Hi-rise (pre-a).
Sector 166 - Frankie Joe Haydn Blk (pre-a), Gus Holst
Blk (pre-atom).
Sector 168 - Amon Duul Blk (post-a), Huggys Hon-
eymoon Hotel, Peter Lee Blk (post-a), Reg Varney Blk
(pre-a), Van Damme Blk (post-a).
Sector 170 - Dreery House (post-a), Robert Maplethorpe
Lux-Apts (post-a), Sigma District (pre-a).
Sector 171 - Garbo Bodywarp Salon.
Sector 172 - Greystoke Heights (pre-a), Harriet Beecher
Stowe Blk (post-a), Placebo Conapts (post-a).
Sector 176 - George Pal Blk (post-a), Mega-U, Serve-U-
Well Building.
Sector 177 - Frank Cannon Blk (pre-a), Orson Welles
Blk (pre-a), Tobias Belcher Blk (pre-a), William Bunter
Blk (pre-a).
Sector 186 - Charlie Drake Blk (pre-a), Lawson Dyce Blk
(pre-a).
Sector 187 - Lee Harvey Oswald Blk (pre-a), Smiley
Jones Blk (post-a).
Sector 188 - Ghengis Grimsnoad Blk (post-a), Juliet
Bravo Blk (post-a), Joseph Soper Blk (post-a), Mick
McGahey Blk (post-a), U Thant Blk (post-a).
Sector 191 - Ed Poe Blk (post-a), Fred Quimby Blk (pre-
a), White Cliffs Of Dover.
Sector 193 - City Life, Ltd. Building, UniGlom Building.
Sector 199 - Agg-Bio Building.
Sector 200 - Badge of Courage Bar
Sector 202 - Little Cuba (feat. Jason King Blk, pre-a; Rudi
Vallee Blk, pre-a).
Sector 205 - The O-Zone
Sector 206 - Ennis-Dillon Conapts (pre-a), J T Megson
Blk (pre-a).
Sector 207 - Otto Sump Flabbon Depository.
Sector 208 - Jack Davis Blk (post-a), Mike Read Blk
(post-a).
Sector 209 - Little Nu-Delhi (feat. Saeed Jaffrey Blk;
pre-a).
Sector 210 - Clive James Blk (post-a), Dario Argento Blk
(pre-a), Mega-Circular.
Sector 212 - Benito Mussolini Blk (pre-a).
 Sector 214 - Martha Chesterton Memorial Park, Pizza
Plaza, Prowlights Alien Menagerie, Webster Conapts
(post-a).
Sector 219 - Arafat Precinct, B F Skinner Blk (post-a),
Rick Moranis Blk (post-a).
Sector 221 - Billy Herschel Blk (post-a, d. 2105), St Bob
Flowerdew Hospital.
Sector 222 - Inter-Time, Mega-Labs.
Sector 223 - Hippodrome, Mega-City Teleport.
Sector 225 - Cantona Conapts (post-a), Charles Darwin
Blk (post-a), Lobsang Rampant Blk (post-a).
Sector 226 - Frances Bath Blk (post-a), Shanks Conapts
(post-a).
Sector 228 - Cyril Lord Blk ruins (pre-a), James Kieler
Blk (pre-a), John Brunner Blk (pre-a).
Sector 229 - Tactical Command Bunker West.
Sector 230 - Carol Monroe Blk (d. 2105), The Jungle
(human slum), Vince St. Clair Blk (d. 2105).
Sector 231 - Bert Russell Blk (pre-a), Bob Marks Blk
(pre-a).
Sector 232 - Charles Manson Blk (d. 2113).
Sector 239 - New Garbo Hermitage Blk (pre-a), Resyk
West, Santora Park.
Sector 240 - Jack Yeovill Blk (pre-a), Malkie McCormick
Blk (d. 2114), Tom Jefferson Blk (pre-a).
MegNorth (241-300)
Sector 242 - Beller Conapts (post-a), Jack Kevorkian Blk
(post-a), Lucy Lawless Blk (post-a).
Sector 244 - Alberto Runch Blk (pre-a), Blake Carrington
Luxy-Blk (post-a), Ken Dodd Boulevard (pre-a).
Sector 245 - Cliff Richard Luxy-Blk (post-a), Lee Van
Cleef University.
Sector 246 - Buenapista Studios, Gripper Stebson Blk
(pre-a), Jerry Springer Blk (post-a).
Sector 247 - Bungit Din Indo-Eaterie, Caspar Weinberger
Blk (pre-a), Clayton Towers (pre-a), Courtney Love Lux-
Apts (post-a), Semper-Markins Square, Tommy Vercetti
Social Club, Whoopie Goldberg Blk (pre-a), Wyatt Earp
Blk (pre-a).
Sector 248 - Richard Burton Blk (post-a), Northside
Mega-Technic, Tony Tyler Blk (post-a), Wilbur Wright
Blk (post-a).
Sector 249 - Al Fayed Luxy-Developments (post-a),
Grand Megapolitan Opera House.
Sector 250 - Northspoon Dust Zone.
Sector 252 - Al Taylor Blk (post-a), Great Northern
Highway Feed, Mega-City Necropolis, Wim Wenders Blk
(pre-a).
Sector 253 - Cilla Black Con-Apts (pre-a), Michael Stipe
Blk (post-a), Seb Coe Sportsplex.
Sector 254 - George Lucas Blk (post-a), Muscle Mansion
(post-a), Peri White Tower (pre-a).
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Sector 255 - Museum of the Mega-Olympiad.
Sector 256 - Bob Geldof Blk (pre-a), John McCrea Blk
(post-a), Northgate Clinic.
Sector 258 - Bernard Manning Blk (pre-a), Delia Smith
Blk (post-a), Ray Chandler Blk (post-a).
Sector 259 - Anthony Burgess Memorial Museum, Norrin
Radd Blk (post-a).
Sector 261 - Clive Sinclair Blk (pre-a), Golam Heights
(luxy-Blks), Hector Comacho Blk (post-a).
Sector 263 - George Raft Blk for Retired Gangsters (pre-
a), Joan Collins Blk (pre-a), Nat Hiken Blk (pre-a), Sir
Kenneth Clarke Blk (post-a).
Sector 264 - Chapman Pincher Blk (pre-a), Louis Simson
Blk (post-a).
Sector 265 - Fred Gee Blk (post-a), Garner Ted Armstrong
Blk (pre-a), Googie Withers Blk (post-a), Resyk North.
Sector 267 - Bill Werbenuik Blk (post-a), DeLorean Luxy-
Blk (post-a), James Dean Blk (pre-a).
Sector 269 - Parthenon (d. 2104).
Sector 270 - Mega-Studios, Mick McMahon Blk (pre-a).
Sector 271 - Gorbachev Estate (post-a), Stratford Johns
Blk (post-a).
Sector 272 - Jumbo Cummings Blk (post-a), Paul Gado
Bock (pre-a), Shakin Stevens Blk (pre-a), Tom Mix Blk
(post-a).
Sector 273 - Little Venice, Mega-City Art Gallery.
Sector 274 - David Niven Blk (post-a), Ned Kelly Blk
(post-a).
Sector 275 - Arnold Stang Blk (pre-a), Burt Lancaster
Blk (d. 2104), Casanova Blk (d.2104), Charlton Heston
Luxy-Blk (pre-a), Ricardo Montalban Luxy-Blk (d. 2104),
Ricardo Montalban II Luxy-Blk (post-a).
Sector 276* - Allan Ginsberg Blk (d. 2126), Betty Crocker
Blk (post-a), The Ezra Pound Hole (d. 2126), Henry
Kissinger Blk (post-a), Maja Jeffrey Blk (post-a), Pancho
Villa Blk (post-a), Rikki Fulton Blk (d. 2103).
*Partially destroyed in 2126; widespread collateral damage
and radiation contamination.
Sector 277 - AB-Ls Smokatorium (d. 2126), Dixy Plasteen
Complex (d. 2103).
Sector 278 - Eldo Cleaver Blk (post-a), Matt Hodgman
Blk (pre-a), New Jack Blk (post-a).
Sector 279 - Imran Khan Blk (post-a), Martin Sheen Blk
(post-a), Olly North Blk (pre-a).
Sector 280 - Dan Tanna Blk (post-a), Enid Blyton Blk
(post-a).
Sector 281 - Downside Pipeway (d. 2104), Ed Hillary
Blk (pre-a), Mario Lanza Blk (pre-a).
Sector 282 - Connie Booth Blk (post-a), J T Edson Blk
(post-a), Snyder Complex.
Sector 292 - Harry Cross Conapts (post-a).
Sector 295 - H G Wells Plaza, Sump Tower Hotel.
Sector 297 - Hilary Briss Lux-Apts (post-a), Tactical
Command Bunker North.
Sector 300 - Northways Bridge.
 Northwest Hab-Zone (301-305)
Misc - Hells Highway, Nuke Alley.
Sector 301 - Barrio District (post-a), Hope Rise (post-
a), Krickland Stackers, Reebers Reclam (post-a), The
Rock, 7th Heaven Conapts (post-a), The Sin Bin (pre-a),
Toledo Flats Precinct (post-a), Traffic Substation Alamo,
Transcola Stackers, Vicaro Precinct (feat. John Prescott
Blk, pre-a), Welbeck Conapts (post-a).
Sector 303 - Shaftoe Street Stackers, St Doris Day Hos-
pital, Wallgate Savings & Loan.
ACCOMMODATION
Visitors to Mega-City One have thousands of hotels to
choose from, with prices to suit all budgets. The larger
hotels recommend booking rooms in advance to guaran-
tee availability, while the grotty rooming houses of City
Bottom are grateful for any custom they can find. Hotels
at the lower end of the market include the Armageddon
Hotel (guests are advised to carry firearms), GO2L, the
Inn-On-The-Sked franchise (with dedicated vehicle park
and service facilities), the Loveboat aircon (for newlyweds
and adulterers) and The Twilight Rooms. De luxe hotels
include the Grand Rambo, Hulton, Pinnacle, Sump Tower
and The Twelve Months.
For ultra-cheap sleepovers, stackers (Flannigans
One-night Stand and the Triple-Z, for example) are ideal,
narrow and tall, crammed fit to burst with one-person
pods containing a mattress, no-frills tri-D unit and toilet
tube. A stackers standard of hygiene will vary greatly as
many pods are not cleaned or disinfected more than once
a day and the resident sloshers (cleaners) not paid enough
to take much pride in their daily drudgery. Travellers un-
willing to risk a rad-flea infestation or have the sloshers
rifle through their private possessions can opt to spend
a little more and seek out a hostels or bed-and-breakfast
(B&B), although their fellow occupants may be just as
unsavoury.
For motorists who need to rest but do not wish to lose
time getting to their destination, wheeled hotels (mo-tels)
like the massive computer-controlled juggers of the Big-
Mo Company can accommodate both ground and hover
Podport
Battlement
Curtain
Wall
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vehicles while their occupants can eat, rest or sleep, all
the while the mo-tel thunders along the meg-ways fol-
lowing a perpetual cruise loop.
Location - Stackers are almost all located along City
Bottom, while most hostels and B&Bs are distributed close
to cityblocks. Boutiques are divided between Low- and
Hightown stratum with a bias towards the upper levels
to indicate an extra dash of quality. The de luxe hotels sit
at very top of MegNorth luxy-blocks in private splendour,
occupy the entirety of specialised hotel blocks, or go
the distance and hover far above the Lowtown rabble in
ornately-designed aircons.
Administration - The Stacker, Hostel, B&B and Bou-
tique-classes of accommodation are often the sole business
holding of their proprietors who will live on the premises.
The De Luxe and Swanky-class hotels are franchises owned
by corporations, placed in Mega-City Ones more affluent
sectors, and in the hearts of the worlds most exclusive
vacation destinations.
THE CITY WALL
The city wall was constructed in 2101 on the orders of the
tyrannical Chief Judge Cal, built with the sweat and blood
of hundreds of thousands of conscripted labourers; many
died to bring Cals twisted vision of a prison-sized city
to fruition. When Cals forces were overthrown, the city
wall remained. Although originally designed to prevent
the population from escaping Cals regime, the wall was
equally as effective at keeping undesirables like mutants
and other enemy forces from freely entering the city. The
city wall suffered major damage during the Apocalypse
War and the Necropolis, but has since been fully restored
and upgraded.
Structure
Chief Judge Cal wanted his wall completed in as short a
span of time as was humanly possible. The answer was to
construct it from plasteen, a common building material of
the late 21st century, easily moulded into any configura-
tion of building block. The city wall measures one mile in
Watchtower
Gun
Podport Turret
The
Cursed
Earth
height along its entire length, including the more recent
southern face built after the Apocalypse War to protect
the remaining southern sectors. Extensive repair work
began at the same time to rebuild the east (Atlantic) wall,
levelled by a monstrous tsunami generated by East-Meg
One nuclear strikes out at sea.
As described previously, the city walls original func-
tion was to prevent citizens from leaving Mega-City One.
As such, the structure was built high and sheer. Search-
lights were placed every dozen-metres, constantly strob-
ing the city and the walls own faces for transgressors. If
they were discovered, death was the only punishment,
delivered quickly and efficiently by one of many hundreds
of street cannon emplacements. Larger anti-aircraft bat-
teries scanned the skies for fugitive hover vehicles. Judges
patrolled battlements that ran the walls length. When
Mega-City One was liberated, work began to redefine the
city walls utility. As a barrier against the armed threats
coming from the Cursed Earth, its weaponry was turned
one-eighty degrees about, facing outwards, joined by
watchtowers containing spysat-augmented, long-range
sensor stations. Gun turrets were installed, augmenting
the street cannons of Cals day with medium and heavy
laser cannon, capable of annihilating a convoy of enemy
ground vehicles in seconds. The city wall has no spe-
cific Justice Department command, instead protected by
Judges assigned from every adjacent sector. The Sector
Chiefs are responsible for the security of the wall that
falls within their sector.
Wall Traffic
Gatehouses are sited intermittently in the curtain walls
to allow authorised ground vehicle and foot communi-
cations between Mega-City One and the Cursed Earth.
Located further apart and higher up the curtain walls
face are podports large enough to admit a single A-Class
H-Wagon. Two sets of armoured doors: an outer portcullis
and a blast door, protect the gatehouse and podport alike.
Both entrances have numerical designations (West Gate
16, or Podport 20, for example).
All civilian traffic is examined scrupulously for contra-
band and any possible threats to the security of Mega-City
One. As armed Judges watch, teams of Customs Judges
probe newcomers with sniffer robots, while Med-Judges
perform full medicals with the authority to place their
charges under quarantine until they are no longer deemed
a health hazard. Vehicles too are detained for decontami-
nation or structural integrity inspection to assess their
suitability for travel on the high-speed Mega-City road
network. For any citizens, formal authorisation is required
to be permitted to leave the city, available by application
to Barney, the City Hall computer, who cross-references
the claimants profile with the Justice Department to learn
if the claimant has a perp sheet, and is seeking to leave
the city for a less than wholesome reason, like attempting
to escape arrest.
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Should at any time the subject of an entrance exam fail
to qualify for admission into Mega-City One, the Judges
will throw him back into the Cursed Earth without further
notice with a stern warning never to return unless his situ-
ation improves. Known criminals found to be attempting
to enter Mega-City One will be arrested and placed in
one of the temporary holding pens inside the city wall to
await formal sentencing and relocation to an iso-block.
Mega-City citizens who fail to pass muster are sentenced
to five years in the iso-cubes for wasting the Judges time.
Criminals are arrested and taken by Catch Wagon to the
nearest sector house for processing.
Beyond The Wall
All terrain immediately beyond Mega-City Ones west wall,
reaching into the Cursed Earth, is neutral territory (Dead
Zone) for a distance of fifty kilometres. The area is aptly
named, for it was the site of huge burial pits containing
millions upon millions of citizens murdered by the Dark
Judges during their Necropolis campaign. The burial pits
were disturbed in 2114 when necromancer Sabbat resur-
rected all their dead during Judgement Day. 60 million
undead crawled from the pits and attacked Mega-City
One. After Sabbats defeat, the zombies returned to their
deathly state. This time, the Judges were more thorough
and destroyed the corpses, scattering their ashes to the
Cursed Earth winds. The burial sites were filled in, but
they continue to exude disturbing psychic energies despite
having been treated by Exorcist Division.
Any organisation that declares an interest in establish-
ing a temporary or permanent encampment within the
Dead Zone falls under close scrutiny from the Justice
Department; hostile or potentially threatening parties
are ordered to leave the vicinity within twelve hours or
face a forceful expulsion. Habitats and encampments
that manage successfully to gain authorisation for long-
term settlement have all to date been established for
commercial purposes benefiting Mega-City One (food
producers, science laboratories conducting field studies
into Cursed Earth geology and biodiversity, and modest
resupply waystations.
The former southern tail of Mega-City One once
stretched as far as Florida, now long devastated by the
Apocalypse War. Mega-City Ones immediate response was
to effect emergency damage control measures and build
a new length of wall to separate the surviving sectors of
MegSouth from the ruined hellhole on its doorstep. This
shield wall is lightly-guarded as there is little likelihood
of a threat emerging from the south sector radlands able
to survive the corrosive rad-mists and intense heat.
The Atlantic Wall overlooks the fetid waters of the
Black Atlantic, polluted beyond measure by decades of
intensive industrial abuse. The Justice Department out-
lawed such waste disposal projects soon after assuming
ultimate jurisdiction over Mega-City One and clean-up
projects have been in progress along the city limits, but
it will take many generations yet before the Black Atlan-
tics waters will resume any semblance of their former
health. The Black Atlantic is lethal to marine life, but has
little impact on oceangoing commerce, business between
Mega-City One and the worlds trade centres conducted
by fleets of solar tankers and a variety of shipping built to
last with corrosion-proof hulls and acid-diffusing sprinkler
systems safeguarding exposed decks. To facilitate the
needs of the maritime community, the Atlantic Wall is
peppered with docks able to berth the largest tankers;
the largest docks are to be found at Long Island Sector,
while smaller vessels of industrial and civilian ownership
can enter the city through the sea-gates and weigh anchor
in the Mega-Docks. Each sea-gate is numbered (Atlantic
Gate 3, for example). The Justice Departments Harbour
Patrol, Marine- and Atlantic Divisions keep the peace in
the citys East Canal, and the 100 kilometres of ocean
along the entire length of the North American eastern
seaboard under Mega-City One jurisdiction.
ENTERTAINMENT
Aggro Dome
Notable in a long line of commercial attempts to cash in
and control the seething passions of mega-city citizens,
the Aggro Dome was doomed to fail from the moment it
opened its doors. On the surface the concept was sound:
to provide an outlet for the citizens pent-up aggression
and so reduce their need to express it on the streets. The
therapeutic activities included smashing robots to pieces
in the Ultra-violent Room, torturing or beheading lifelike
simulacrams, leaping onto the animated faces of hated
city enemies, vaping mannikins representing stere-
otypical figures of authority and the simple pleasures of
chopping wood. However, the Aggro Domes bubble burst
within the first day of opening; its customers found their
aggression stimulated to such a degree that they turned
on each other and the dome became an arena of real-life
bloodshed. The Judges quickly intervened, demolishing
the Aggro Dome to force the troublemakers out onto the
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slab, where the Judges put an end to the fighting and the
Aggro Dome franchise put out of business ... temporarily.
Exploiting the Aggro Domes nostalgia factor, the Happy
Hate Company relaunched the Aggro Dome brand across
MegEast in 2115 as a successful pilot scheme to assess
the viability of investing in further domes throughout
MegWest, and in 2120, opened its first dome in Texas City.
A private security contingent has been installed in every
dome to defuse any indications of the type of violence
that caused the downfall of the original franchise.
Location - Sector 47 East.
Administration - Stress Solutions, the pioneers of
Aggro Dome, rebounded into the business arena in part-
nership with TecTon Biocorp with the New Model Phoord,
a living, breathing punchbag with durable, self-healing
skin.
Alien Zoo
Mega-City Ones Alien Zoo is the largest of its kind in
the western hemisphere and the highlight of any trip to
the Mega-City Zoo. It is home to many strange, amusing
and downright weird creatures imported from across the
galaxy. The zoo is divided into several different habitat
zones designed to simulate the natural environment of the
various species. Differing types of security exist to keep
the exhbits in their place, from electro-cordons, non-grip
walls and plasteel cages to simple solutions like water or
tranq gas-filled moats.
Location - Sector 44 East.
Administration - The Alien Zoo is owned by Plunder
Enterprises, a private concern that imports alien animals
for entertainment, business and research purposes as
well as enjoying a lucrative sideline in procuring rare
alien artefacts for hugely-wealthy Earthside clients. The
Plunder Enterprises central office is based on Mars and
currently chaired by Pan-African Lord Loggerhead.
The Annie Hall
A public venue of the highest calibre, offering Mega-City
Ones cultural elite an arena to celebrate their talents of
unparalleled size and quality in the showbiz industry. The
Annie Hall regularly hosts events including the Academy
Of Performing Arts Awards, the Mega-City Philharmonic
Orchestra and the Bert Drizzel Lectures: Making Thinking
Fun! Ticket prices are artificially inflated to deter most
Lowtowners and, following a terrorist attack in 2118, all
ticket applicants are now routinely screened.
Location - Sector 57 East.
Administration - The Annie Hall is the property of
the Votaforta Foundation, created by the late wlaywright
Ms Votaforta to perpetuate the performing arts in this
culturally-impoverished sector. The Foundations efforts
have been so successful that the Annie Hall is now one
of Mega-City Ones most respected venues and has been
honoured by visits from Chief Judge Hershey and mem-
bers of the Brit-Cit royal family.
 Alien Zoo Attractions
Antarean Tentatee
Drv (2) Fig (2) Hed (3) Nim (4) Psi (0) Spd (3) Str (2)
Academic Skills - Mimicry.
Soundbite - Get away from those citizens, you alien idiot!
The Antarean tentatee is one of the Alien Zoos more amus-
ing exhibits, a small, green humanoid with a very small brain
but gifted with amazing powers of mimicry. The tentatee
can instantly assimilate and parrot the mannerisms and
physical behaviour of any single or group of humanoids it is
placed within close proximity of, although it will not be truly
aware of what those actions actually portend. The tentatee
will also parrot words and sentences spoken by others. The
Alien Zoo has a dozen of the creatures kept within a cage
with an environment approximating the tentatees desert
homeworld of Antares Amigo.
Dandrill
Drv (-) Fig (6) Hed (3) Nim (3) Psi (0) Spd (8) Str (30)
Soundbite - Gaarroorrhh!
The predatory dandrill is the top of the food chain on Mor-
dred, a jungle planet located along the Galactic Frontier.
The dandrill is a quadruped of great strength and surprising
speed for a creature of its kind, able to outrun the average
citizen and impale him with its tree-sized fangs. The dandrill
in the Alien Zoo was an infant imported at great cost, but has
recouped the investment, participating in staged combats
with large robot animals coated with blood substitute. The
dandrill eats raw meat and lots of it, up to five tonnes per
day (it cannot digest the cheaper soy-beef). The dandrill
enjoys the largest enclosure of all, visible from any corner
of the zoo. The creature has little need to sleep, and its
strange roars can be heard at all hours, to the discomfort of
the citizens living in neighbouring cityblocks.
Duckbilled Yabba-Dabba
Drv (-) Fig (0) Hed (1) Nim (1) Psi (0) Spd (5) Str (40)
Soundbite - Gruummm.
The duckbilled Yabba-Dabba is a massive, quadrupedal her-
bivore from Krastos. It is entirely placid and spends it days
slowly munching on huge, genetically-modified plants ring-
ing its enclosure which grow almost as fast as the creature
can eat them. On Krastos, the Yabba-Dabba must often stand
in lakes to help take the weight off its stumpy legs. Its pen at
the Alien Zoo is dominated by an artificial lake, surrounded
by food-plants and a large, dry island where the beast can
bask in the sun. Due to its poor eyesight, the Yabba-Dabba
has been known to swallow zookeepers and the odd visit-
ing citizen, mistaking them for food plants; a truckload of
laxatives is the only certain way to extricate any unfortunate
trapped within the beasts digestive tract.
Dune Shark
Drv (-) Fig (6) Hed (2) Nim (4) Psi (0) Spd (7) Str (10)
The dune sharks were first encountered by settlers on the
Tenth Planet of Hestia. The creatures attacked the first
colony, devouring the livestock and many settlers before
electric fences could be erected to keep them out. By some
means, a number of dune sharks came to Earth, hunting
in the Cursed Earth. A pack attacked Mega-City One and
many more were discovered breeding in distant caves. Big
game hunter Manfred Von Kessler captured a breeding
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pair for inclusion within the Alien Zoo. Four dune sharks
currently occupy the Slaughter House exhibit, their daily
massacring of imported, live bisoon a favourite with visitors.
Dune sharks are so-named because of their resemblance to
terrestrial sharks, although they are somewhat larger, with
a terrifying set of teeth, a club-like tail that delivers a nasty
blow and a thick mantle protecting the tops of their heads.
Dune sharks have the ability to fly by expelling buoyant
gas from bladders connected to an internal system that
manufactures the buoyant gas as fast as it is jettisoned. The
sharks are nocturnal and hunt only at night unless their lair
is disturbed. They hunt by burying themselves under the
sand and then explode into the air, biting into their prey. The
Dune sharks resident at the Alien Zoo have been nicknamed
Smiley (bull male), Emmanuel, Chuckles and Lily. They
are contained within a plasteel cage and sedated between
meals so as not to devour one another.
Rigelian Gorf
Drv (-) Fig (4) Hed (2) Nim (3) Psi (0) Spd (4) Str (11)
Soundbite - Gorf!
The gorf is a mixture of primate and crustacean, covered
with grey hair, its two arms terminating in powerful, crablike
claws. The gorfs are found in the Hairy Mountains on the
planet Rigel-G, roaming the tangled undergrowth in family
units, only meeting with other gorfs to fight for territory.
The gorf resident of the Alien Zoo was discovered wounded
and no match for the Rigelian hillsmen who captured him
and sold the unfortunate creature to beast traders bound
for Earth. The gorf is entering its elderly years and its grey,
furry coat turning white. It spends its time sullenly prowling
the borders of its high-walled pen, instinctively sharpening
its claws against the rockcrete. The gorfs sorry appearance
conceals a killers mind, however, and the beast ever waits
for a curious visitor or clumsy zookeeper to stumble into
its grasp...
Spiny Starer
Drv (-) Fig (3) Hed (3) Nim (2) Psi (4) Spd (4) Str (10)
Soundbite - The Spiny Starer has no vocal chords.
This strange entity resembles a bipedal porcupine, its details
all but lost within the jagged forest of pitch black spines
covering its body. The spiny starers piercing silver eyes
are conduits for the starers innate psi-power, allowing it
to mesmerise its enemies. In the wilds of the Starers home
planet Frazz, it stuns its foes with its psi-stare, giving it
sufficient time to escape, or to grab a rock and pound the
enemy to a pulp. In the Alien Zoo, the Starers power is all
but inhibited by a psi-null cage (psi 4), so that all the Starer
can do is cause mild hallucinations in the brains of citizens
caught in its bewitchment.
Suckling
Drv (-) Fig (3) Hed (1) Nim (2) Psi (0) Spd (3) Str (9)
Soundbite - Slluurrrppp!
The suckling is an animal resembling a giant squid, but
can live on land as comfortably as it swims through deep
water. The suckling propels itself along land using its many
tentacles, secreting a noxious slime to smooth its passage.
The sucking is an intergalactic pest, inhabiting any dank,
dark passage that can contain its sizeable bulk, like service
tunnels, zipstrips and sewers; there it will sleep, or ensnare
 contain its sizeable bulk such as service tunnels, zipstrips and
sewers. There it will sleep, or ensnare any who come within
reach of its tentacles, sucking the flesh and meat off their
bones with one mighty action of its extensible mouthpiece.
In the Alien Zoo, the Ssuckling lives in a tank featuring an
amphibious environment and a climbing apparatus for it to
cling to. Visitors are invited to throw meat dollies (soy-beef
figurines) over the tank wall, and delight as the suckling
snatches at them.
Terrordax
Drv (-) Fig (4) Hed (2) Nim (1/4*) Psi (0) Spd (2/10*) Str (7)
* In flight.
Soundbite - Rawwkrr!
The tTerrordax is a winged, reptilian predator similar in
appearance to the pterodactyl of Prehistoric Earth. The speci-
mens featured in the Alien Zoo were captured scavenging
among the ruins of the David Attenbourgh Wildlife Research
Centre on Phyllis-8. Terrordax normally hunt in mid-flight,
snatching birds out of the skies with their talons, or diving
over lakes to scoop fish with their long, sharp beaks. If they
feel that it is safe to land, terrordax will venture onto the
ground and scavenge from the carcases of dead animals.
A flap (collective) of terrordax numbering seven in total
live in the Alien Zoo, mostly juveniles recently imported to
replace deceased livestock.
BARS & EATERIES
Bars
The Mega-City One bar scene is widespread and oversub-
scribed. Once the province of the after-hours workers who
dropped in for a beer before going home to the family,
the chronically unemployed of the 22nd century have
little to do but prop up the bar and guzzle cheap beer
all day. Most bars open their doors in the late morning,
remain open until the early morning and then close for a
couple of hours to allow the sloshers time to properly rid
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Wurlitz Wooflebeast
Drv (-) Fig (3) Hed (1) Nim (2) Psi (0) Spd (7) Str (30)
Soundbite - Chomp!
The apelike wooflebeast has been the Alien Zoos star
attraction for nearly three decades. Although it lacks the
savagery of the dune shark and the cute appeal of the
Antarean tentatee, the wooflebeasts sheer size (topping
eighty feet in height) and its goofy, slackjawed countenance
have long-proven a moneyspinner. The wooflebeast spends
its days doing very little, propped up against a replica of
a hillside, inspecting its orifices for tasty snacks. To liven
the act up, hoverpods will dart in to rouse the beast with
stinger-beams and then evade its grasping hands in a
deliberately theatrical manner. The wooflebeast did once
escape its confinement when loony citizen Marvin Threebod
unlocked the wooflebeasts perimeter wall. Starved of a
decent meal for years, the giant monster delved deep into
the crowds of screaming citizens, stuffing its mouth with
dozens of bodies already crushed in its huge hands. When
the wooflebeast was recaptured, its popularity regardless
of the recent massacre ensured it was returned to its zoo
habitat to resume captivity.
the place of accumulated dirt and spilt beverages before
the daily cycle restarts. The average Mega-City One bar
serves both alcoholic and non-alky drinks as supplied
by a small number of major breweries. Food is available
in the premises, normally junk food that can be quickly
prepared and stored for extended periods without break-
ing health and safety laws.
Bars attract differing social crowds and specialise their
wares accordingly. The main visual divisions are racial,
with bars catering to human and non-human clients, the
latter typically located in Alien Town and around the
MegCentral spaceport neighbourhoods. Age categories
 districts. The seedier bars keep close to their preferred
clientele, partially concealed by the old tenements of
Old Town. Hightown bars are nestled safely within the
upper levels of cityblocks and admit only select patrons,
usually residents of that blocks hightowner community,
their identities confirmed by doormeks.
Administration - All bar owners (barmasters) must
acquire a license to run a bar which results from a com-
bined course in bartending and business at the Jerry
Thomas College of Barkeeping in Sector 39. Barmasters
who operate independently of franchises are usually
small-time biz-cits who invest all their life savings in the
bar, their fates intertwined with the bars for decades until
such a time as the barmaster has made enough income
to retire.

Eateries
Meggers love to eat, even more so now that their lives are
dominated by leisure time, to the extent that an entire
subculture - that of the Fatty - has ballooned up around
the notion of chain-guzzling. Meggers may flit from res-
taurant to restaurant on the recommendation of celebrity
food critics to sample the latest dishes, or remain loyal
to one or a small number of eateries based in the neigh-
bourhood. Lowtown restaurants offer synthetic foods as
denote the next level of preference, with select beverages, standard fare, while Hightown counterparts have many
interior designs befitting the aesthetics of each genera- more options on the menu, from wholly organic produce,
tion and appropriate noise levels. None of these bars will genetically-modified to create totally unique dishes, or
exclude those of differing age groups from entering - after delicacies imported from beyond the solar system. Despite
all, business is where you find it - but generally people the quality of foodstuffs on offer, many Lowtowners stick
of a certain age prefer to stick with their own. The more to what they know: the local eatery, bar and grill, deli or
fashionable bars cater to specific subcultures such as ug- fast food joint. Commonly-served foods include slabcakes
lies, punks, trendoes and fatties, while exclusive bars like (served with mayhem syrup), Euro-toast, synthi-beef on
little smokes (slab corner smokatorium) and swearezees synthi-rye, burger and fries, Foodle-Noodle, protein pretzels,
(where all expletives are allowed within soundproofed pizza, sushi, Geddof salad, treemeat and the mighty Big Meg
walls) provide unique environments. The remaining cat- cheesecake. Fast food franchises include the All-night Bur-
egories of bars to be found in Mega-City One are divided
between historic and literary (with names including the
words alehouse, pub or tavern), singles bars and hotel
bars which have better security and class of customer.
The bars visited by the Judge Dredd comic strip tend
to have rather distinctive names often appearing to be
to their barmasters detriment, though in truth they are
never short of clientele - and they entertain the reader!
The majority of bars prefer to use more congenial titles
to attract the punters. Examples of both branding phi-
losophies include the Bay Of Pigs, Boils Head, Crazed
Cur Bar, Dead Dog Bar, The Iron Bar, Lame Duck Bar, The
Meatish Pie, Murkies, Neutron Bar & Grill, Planet Gary, The
Quite Nice Bar, Rathole Eatery, Rat Run Bar, the Running
Sore Cafe, Salmonellas Bar, Slug and Gristle and The Song
Dog Bar.
Location - Lowtown bars are to be found almost eve-
rywhere, barring block plazas where the sale of alcoholic
beverages has long been illegal so as not to encourage
underage drinking. The more respectable bars are lo-
cated on the fringes of biz-districts both within lowtown
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gery, Burgostop, Chuck Chicken, Hungry Hitos, McFattys,
Okeydokey, Pizza Hovel and The Smiling Burger. Smaller
but popular eateries include Furts Diner & Deli, ONellas
Eatery, Shapiros Kosher Hottie House and the Stale Bagel
Dinette. Aircon eateries appealing to the Lowtown crowd
thrive, supplying hoverers with a quick and tasty meal
(Burgostop), while diners with more refined taste-buds
and a larger wallet can sample the finest of meals and
then walk off the calories along the Texas decks of large
aircon restaurants like Heavens Plate, Highlight Rooms
and Pie-In-The-Sky which follow computer controlled
flight paths across the city, offering unparalleled views
of the Mega-City One skyline.
Administration - The smaller eateries tend to be fam-
ily-owned affairs. The restaurants of Hightown calibre
are for the main usually one of several businesses owned
by a local entrepreneur who decided to turn his love of
food into a moneyspinner. Franchises with hundreds of
outlets like Burgostop and Chuck Chicken are owned by
mega-corps of the same name, operating from towering
citadels (food mountains) along the MegSouth border.

COSTA DEL MEG

The Costa Del Meg is an entertainment district located on
the eastern side of the Atlantic wall, built atop a disused
supertanker dock seventeen miles in length. The Costa
is a wall of funfairs, vircades, fast-food outlets and 24/7
clubs enjoyed by millions of citizens each year, watched
over by the Judges of the embedded sector house who cast
a tolerant eye over the happy-go-lucky proceedings. The
Costa Del Meg briefly assumed citywide infamy in 2111
when the master vampire Dracula embarked on a blood-
sucking spree, creating a small army of vampire servants
to spread his evil contagion. The vampires reign of terror
was bloody but brief and normality soon returned to the
Costa Del Meg, although sales of garlic-flavoured chewing
gum went through the roof and citizens traded Mug-Off
for sharpened plasteen stakes for a few weeks.
Location - Sector 105 East.
Administration - Norton Blackpool, the Brit-Cit estate
magnate, bought an old supertanker port and transformed
it into the cheesy wonderland that is the Costa Del Meg.
Blackpool is landlord to dozens of small businesses, all
part of the Costas leisure and service industry.
DEVILS ISLAND
Privately-owned penitentiaries remained the prime means
of prison administration and financing up until the late
21st century. Before the Justice Department expanded the
scope of its authority, initiating a program of construction
of Iso-blocks, prisons controlled solely by Judge Iso-War-
dens, Devils Island was a showpiece of private sector
penal innovation; it was also a classic design failure. The
designers of Devils Island saw a niche in the market for
inexpensive prisons: high-capacity, low administration
and maintenance. Their mandate was to convert dis-
used traffic islands into prisons and let the never-ending
streams of high-speed traffic surrounding the prison,
providing a steady deterrent to any convicts hopes of
escaping. Traffic Island 77-FX-7 had its rest and service
stop converted into iso-cubes and a med-bay, topped by
an exercise yard - formerly the islands main hoverpad.
Devils Island was to be fully-automated; its inhabitants
were automatically let out of their iso-cubes three times
daily and led into elevators taking them up to the exercise
yard, and then afterwards returned to their iso-cubes and
fed from food dispensers. Entertainment consisted of
theft-proof tri-D, and regular sermons from the Church
Of Grud. Violence between prisoners was a fact of Devils
Island life, and of Iso-blocks in general. In Devils Island,
injured convicts were lifted into stretchers by robo-docs
and taken for treatment to the med-bay. They were re-
turned with great expedience to their iso-cubes to resume
their daily routine - and to get beaten up again.
Devils Island relied on the stability of the citys
Weather Control system to function. In 2099, this rela-
tionship collapsed: a malfunction unleashed a terrible
blizzard upon MegEast, bringing most of the traffic to
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wasted little time in escaping Devils Island, notably
among them William Whitey Logan, a Judge killer. The
Justice Department soon brought Weather Control back
under control and rounded up the escaped prisoners.
Location - Sector 77 East.
Administration - Devils Island was a initiative
mounted by Runsfeld Construction, a major player in
the Mega-City One transport network whose experience
with prison building was, well, nonexistent. With Devils
Island ultimately declared a failure, Runsfeld Construc-
tion went into liquidation and its management imprisoned
for corporate negligence. The final fate of Devils Island
has yet to be decided.

DREAM PALACE
To provide a stress-relieving experience for frustrated
and unfulfilled citizens, thought-manipulating technology
(once the exclusive province of the Justice Departments
Dream Police) was licensed for commercial exploitation
and the Dream Palace franchise was created. By induc-
ing sleep and then stimulating REM sleep, any number
of dreams can be generated, from simple everyday
triumphs (spending time with departed relatives and
friends or winning the latest Supersurf), to single-hand-
edly destroying armies of Cursed Earth mutancheroes,
Boinging among the planets and journeying back in time
to a less troubled period. A typical session in a dream
machine lasts one hour, but since time is subjective in
Dreamland, the client may easily experience what seems
like a lifetime of personal fantasy in those 60 minutes. buys the use of a dream booth and the personal attention
A payment of 13,000c (about three months hab rent) of a dreamweaver, one trained in the use of the dream
machine and the correct application of electronic signals
to ensure the client receives the dreams he has asked for.
Dream machines can be used to inflict nightmares as well
as pleasant dreams, and can suffuse the dreamers mind
to such an intensity that he can actually die from the ex-
perience. Dreamweavers are carefully vetted on grounds
of psychological stability, but the occasional Bad Knight
has crept into the system, by accident or intent inducing
brain damage and extreme trauma to clients before he
is discovered by the Judges.

Entertainment, Misc.
Dinosaur World - Robot dinosaurs emit synthesised
roars and wage a simulated survival of the fittest man-
date against each other. Dinosaur World was founded on
reclaimed no-go zone land and populated with advanced
animatronic replicas of the prehistoric beasts, later re-
placed by fully-robotic models (mekasaurs) that prowl
their enclosures as though genuinely hungry for some
flesh to tear at, and stage savage fights, red oil spattering
everywhere, to thrill the visitors (Sector 126 South).
Dramarena - Generic, open-air ampitheatre often
located on a block plaza where local plays are enacted,
speeches are made and large-attendance face-to-face
discussions can be held. Dramarenas are usually owned as
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the cityblock committee to whom the block plaza belongs.
Low-budget affairs, dramarenas are not well protected
and are easy targets for gangs who use the open space
for confronts and midnight street bike races. The Little
Bowl is inversely Mega-City Ones largest dramarena
(Sector 87 East).
Hippodrome - Formerly one of MegEasts largest in-
door spaces for rent, the Hippodrome was bought lock,
stock and trough by a consortium of fatties who now stage
the annual All-sector Eating Championships there. As a
focus for fatty culture, the surrounding cityblocks have
become quickly become inundated with joist-warping
tenants and flab-fans (Sector 223 West).
Holograph Theatre - Before the advent of home
tri-D media, the holograph theatres were the wonder of
their day, immersing audiences in captivating audio and
visual dramas and documentaries. Barely one-percent
of the holograph theatre population remain standing,
although hardly any still fulfil their original function and
are left derelict, inhabited by sub-humes, slabpackers and
criminals exploiting the theatres fall from grace to hold
secret meetings.
Hoverdrome - Large, domed arenas where destruction
derbies, mock air combats, jet-stunts and powerboard
aerobatics are staged before an audience watching from
terrestrial bleachers.
Hov-in - Open air tri-D cinema attended by hover
vehicles. Hov-in owners purchase the movies at discount,
films that have ended their theatrical run and would
otherwise be stored on a hard-drive until purchased for
perpetual syndication across the citys thousands of tri-D
channels. Hov-ins are magnets for courting couples, lon-
ers, weirdos and slacker Street Judges.
Killkraze Combat Park - Killkraze was yet another
attempt to profit from the chronic aggressive streak
bubbling away inside Mega-City One citizens. The fa-
cility was located in reclaimed land between the city
and the Northwest Hab-Zone, where numerous exotic
combat simulations were run by computer inside large,
bombproof domes. Killkraze Combat Park was a hugely
successful enterprise until a computer error replaced the
combatants dummy rounds with live ones. Hundreds of
citizens were killed as a result. Killkraze Combat Park
was shut down and its owner David Krazmer put away
for life (Sector 121 South).
Mega-City Chamber Of Horrors - Showcase of robot-
ic, fully-mobile exhibits representing classic fictional and
real-life villains including Jack The Ripper, the Hunchback
of Notre Dame, Saddam Hussein, the Boston Strangler,
Sweeny Todd and President Booth. The museums former
owner unleashed his robotic creations on a killing spree,
stealing valuables from passers-by to reduce the museums
spiralling debt (Sector 21 East).
Megalopolis - MegEasts largest indoor theatre. Sing-
ing doormen frisk the public, moving on to participate
in the Please Yourself confectionary rush where there
is purposely never enough food to meet the demand, a
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ploy by the Megalopolis owners to increase the ambient
mood of excitement in the public before the play begins.
The Megalopolis has presented such theatrical delights
as the Diary Of Dan Frink, Munce By Moonlight, Undercity
Penance and Love Thy Fellow Blocker. The Megalopoliss
greatest show was the 160-hour long Agonies Of Cold
Turkey which not only caused the cast to be admitted to
the nearest hospital block upon the plays completion, but
killed a dozen members of the less physically fit audience
from sheer exhaustion (Sector 26 East).
Megaplex, Dr. Spocks - The citys largest juve holiday
camp, designed to keep the little tykes off the streets and
out of trouble between block school terms. Dr. Spocks
Megaplex is a virtual city, with six-themed recreation
domes: Surf Camp, Nerd Camp, Ugly Camp, Psi Camp,
Fat Camp and Camp Pal. The inevitable rivalry between
camp juves causes waves of intermittent violence which
has prompted Camp Judge Inman to be permanently
installed (Sector 7 Central).
Martha Chesterton Memorial Park - Also known
simply as the Park, the MCMP is Mega-City Ones larg-
est expanse of natural vegetation. It was founded by
industrialist Chester Chesterton III in memory of his late
wife, built on reclaimed land. The Park has sadly become
neglected and the haunt of criminals, freaks and man-
eating monsters, but the Justice Department tolerates its
existence because the Chesterton estate donates millions
of credits to the Judges every year, and its very existence
helps keeps the precincts neer-do-wells all in one place
where the Judges can keep watch over them. Groups
of Cadet Judges are taken on park patrol to experience
Mega-City Ones wildlife first-hand (Sector 214 West).
Mega-City Art Gallery - The citys most highly-re-
garded gallery of fine arts, antiquities and exhibits from
around the world. Exhibits include Bellinis E=MC2, Float-
ing Dots, Pubic Forest, Lament of the Jellyfish, Uta Hirsts
Death by Monsoon, Simp Strolling Through A Rad-Zone
and the Statues of Mediocrity (Sector 273 North).
Museum Of The Mega-Olympiad - A multimedia
presentation of all events featured in the Mega-Olympics
since its inception, including sneezing, staring, surgery,
hang-gliding, housework, projectile vomiting, door-to-
door selling, taxidermy, flatulence, insulting and sex,
plus the charming, archaic sports like synchro-swimming,
dancing and track-racing (Sector 255 North).
Palais-de-Boing - Enclosed stadiums where citizens
can encase themselves in the wonder plastic Boing and
bounce through specially-designed environments. Boing-
ing is illegal in open spaces, carrying a mandatory 20-year
prison sentence.
Pleasure Island - Orbital holiday camp with an aver-
age attendance of 43,000 citizens.
Smokatorium - The only venues in Mega-City One
where the smoking of nicotine is legal. Even so, patrons
must wear airtight helmets to contain their expelled
smoke to prevent their co-patrons from inhaling too
much of the airborne poisons. Around a third of all sec-
tors have a smokatorium, with MegNorth averaging the
lowest count; its deep-pocketed inhabitants can afford
altogether more stimulating drugs of choice.
Vibe-Bowl - Music ampitheatre owned by the Associ-
ated Musicians of Mega-City One. Hundreds of concerts
are held at the Vibe Bowl every year, notably the Mega-vi-
sion Song Contest and the Squawk Show charity crapfest,
celebrating the worst in world music (Sector 44 East).
Nightclubs
Location - Nightclubs (niteries) are inconspicuous dur-
ing daylight closing hours and glowing like miniature
volcanoes when the sun has set. Most nightclubs are
founded in the shells of derelict stores and ecom units.
The Mega-City One club scene is wild and varied, where
almost any theme is sanctioned short of inflicting physical
or mental pain on others - animal, mineral or vegetable
- against their will. This is not to say most nightclubs are
venues of the bizarre; far from it in fact. Their design
and patrons tastes are not far removed from the clubs
of our era, where music is loud and bombastic, alcohol
flows freely, the club is hot and bodies are packed tightly
together. The entrances are manned by doormen who
use levels of violence sanctioned by the Justice Depart-
ment. Crime thrives within the strobe-blitzed confines of
nightclubs, and drug use and prostitution are as common
as alcohol.
Specialist clubs cater to the many subcultures of Mega-
City One society. Here is a small sample:
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Bat Manse - A high-vaulted club allowing batgliders to
playfully swoop and dart to favourite anthems like Cruise
Missile 2126 and Kite Mark. Eldster batters can hang from
harnesses to simulate their glory years, swaying to smooth
and easy listening songs in the vein of A Slow Glide To
Sino-Cit. All clubbers must bring their own bat-rigs which
are searched for contraband and bat-jamming equipment
(used to botch a rivals aerobatics display) at the door.
Mega-City Ones largest bat manse is the O-Zone, a hol-
lowed-out mothane plant in Sector 203.
Blight Club - A gathering place for uglies, devotees of
the enduring uglification craze devised by the late Otto
Sump. Pretties (unaltered citizens) may only enter if
vouched for by longtime members. A perverse, monthly
beauty contest called the Uglybugs Ball rewards the most
abhorrent clubber with several free courses of uglification
treatment at the exclusive Trez Sump parlour. Gangs of
puglies (punks subjected to uglification treatment as part
of their gang initiation) are often caught by the Judges
loitering around blight clubs as they try to bluff their way
past the doormen to stir up trouble inside.
Popular blight clubs: The Zit Factory, Grotbags, Dross,
The Pumpkin Patch and Medusas.
Gluttonaria - Fatty-only clubs by their very nature
require the largest floor space and have a mountainous
stock of snack foods on offer, but otherwise are indis-
tinguishable from the average niterie. The inherently
unhealthy culture of the fatty demands certain safeguards
to cope with heart failure, burst colons or choking on-site:
by law, each gluttonaria must have a private ambulance
on stand-by, ready to speed the beleaguered fatty to the
nearest med-bay.
Popular gluttonaria: Gorge, The Pig Trough, The Mighty
Belch and The Gulp Stream.
 Muscle Club - The home of the vain, where beefed-
up bodybuilders can parade their glistening muscles and
adoring pipecleaners (muscle fans, typically weedy of
physique) drool over their hi-vit drinks.
Popular muscle clubs: Abs-Fab, Temple of the Gods and
Muscle Bitch.
Palais-De-Bop - Dance clubs promoting popular music
featured in the current slug parade. Themed or nostalgia
nights are regularly hosted. The larger palais-de-bops
have dancefloors on the ground and on the ceiling where
fly-dancers zoogle their ooglies upside down using mag-
netic fly-boots.
Popular Palais-de-bops: Stomp, Ghettoblaster, Detox
and The Turntable. Popular skankeries (more expensive
clubs): The Rabbit Hutch, The Gold Mine and Planet Air-
head.
Sex Clubs - These hot and steamy venues are popular
among an adult culture once known as swingers. To par-
ticipate, one must pass a vigorous medical before applying
for a typically expensive membership. Sex clubs cater to
all schools of sexual practice, including interspecies.
Popular sex clubs: Shaggys, Lets Get Physical, Friction
Burns and Loving The Alien.
Juvey Clubs - Juve niteries were the answer to teen
crime which increased in the evenings, escalating over
the weekends between Block School chores. All juves
attending such clubs must first electronically register
their presence at the door to provide an alibi in case the
Judges need to eliminate them from investigations into
local crime sprees.
Popular juvey clubs - The Green Scene and Young-
bloods.
Administration - Nightclubs are bars with value-
added features, owned in their hundreds by mega-brew-
eries, branded so as to afford the clubs comprehensive
advertising coverage, with at least one branch of any given
brand for every city sector. Clubs that cater to true niche
markets are owned by minor league biz-cits who have a
genuine passion for their select clientele and may well be
an active member of that subculture. Nightclubs are an
infamous haunt of criminal organisations and more than
a few chains will be secretly owned by the mega-mobs
who hide their involvement behind layer upon layer of
false holding companies. Clubs offer the underworld a
ready supply of marks to peddle contraband to, use as
unwitting guinea pigs when testing the latest cocktails of
designer drugs, or simply walking banks to be robbed at
will since most clubbers will be loaded with paycards and
credits to see them through the nights entertainment.
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LANDMARKS
The Academy Of Law
The training ground of the Mega-City One Judges. Would-
be Judges are inducted at the age of five, to endure fifteen
gruelling years of intensive combat, tactical and peace-
keeping training, instilled all the while with the myriad
commandments of the Book Of Law, the Judges bible.
At the age of twenty, Rookie Judges undergo their Final
Street Assessment to decide if they are fit to become a
Full Eagle, a fully-fledged Street Judge.
Apocalypse Monument
The citys largest permanent Apocalypse War statue is
a plasteen mushroom cloud as large as a conapt. In the
evenings, the monument glows like a furnace and emits
audio captures of nuclear detonations. Every January
(the anniversary of the commencement of the war), large
crowds encircle the monument and hold hands as mass
hysteria: crying, screaming, the gnashing of teeth and loss
of bowel movements to simulate radiation poisoning. A
second, more restrained ceremony takes place over Christ-
mas when larger crowds engage in a mass carol-in.
Atlantis
The largest of six service plexes (the others have rather
less exciting names such as Plex 1, 2, etc; Atlantis is the
fourth service plex in the chain) along the Transatlantic
Tunnel, a multi-laned speedway and zoom tube con-
necting Mega-City One with Brit-Cit, spanning the Black
Atlantic Ocean. Most service plexes are little more than
waystations, stop-off points for road travellers. Their ports
are riddled with motels, eateries and fuel stations staffed
by those souls able to withstand a claustrophobic life far
beneath the surface. Atlantis itself contains tourist facili-
ties, deep-sea mining and fishing industries. Mechanised
krillcatchers collect tankfuls of krill to be processed into
The massive
undersea city
of Atlantis.
a mush, imported into Mega-City One as a food additive.
The mutant coral ray has replaced the extinct whale
as the largest creature in the Black Atlantic; schools of
the gigantic sea monsters gather around Atlantis, wait-
ing to be fed to the delight of visitors assembled in the
Showdome observatory. With very little in the way of
crime (low-intensity smuggling is the number one arrest
offence), Atlantis is summarily staffed by no more than
eight coalition Judges of Brit-Cit/MC-1 origin, and one
sniffer robot dog called Pickles.
Empire State Building
Once the worlds tallest structure, the Empire State Build-
ing is now dwarfed by the average cityblock. It is no longer
a tourist attraction and is in a sorry condition, having lost
most of its windows and many of its floors collapsed. The
elevator cars have long lain smashed to pieces at the foot
of the towering shafts, the only access to the upper levels
an extremely treacherous staircase. The Empire State
Building was one of the few remnants of Old New York
to be salvaged when the city was rockcreted over to make
way for Mega-City One. Regarded at the time as a national
treasure, the Empire State was relocated in Sector 44s
Old New York Precinct. The plan was to refurbish it as
a museum of the 21st century, but unwise investments
bankrupted the company that had taken on the project
and the Empire State was abandoned. The building is
now home to homeless, escaped mutants, sub-humes and
gangs of criminals who take pot-shots at passing Judges
from the 102nd-floor observation deck.
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Grand Hall of Justice
This imposing structure, styled in the form of a gigantic
eagle, is the most recent incarnation of the headquarters
of the Justice Department. The original Grand Hall Of
Justice was destroyed in 2104 by Judge Dredd to prevent
the invading Sov-Block from using it as a propaganda tool.
The Grand Hall was rebuilt in 2105, but was destroyed
during its official unveiling ceremony by the Prankster,
a master of mischief. Eventually the present day Grand
Hall was erected, this time designed to withstand a nu-
clear strike, foresight that has saved the lives of many
vitally-important Judges. Before the Grand Hall stands
Aftermath Square where past conflicts are remembered.
A statue of the undercity dweller Fergee - who helped
the Judges defeat the insane Chief Judge Cal - occupies
one section, ever-surrounded by a cloud of robo-flies to
emulate the profusion of foul wildlife that once followed
Fergee about his business. A cenotaph commemorat-
ing the millions killed during the Necropolis sits across
the square. Like the Grand Hall Of Justice, Aftermath
Square is a popular tourist attraction for mega-citters
and foreign travellers. It is equally heavily-guarded by
armed Judges in anticipation of terrorist attacks from
anti-justice groups and pro-democrat extremists, as well
as lesser but undesirable social misfits like scrawlers and
ram-raiders; there have even been attempts to steal the
statue of Fergee and the Necropolis Cenotaph to sell to
black market art dealers.
Landmarks, Misc.
Alien Town - Although extraterrestrials are fairly
commonplace in Mega-City One, a natural inclination
for those different from the majority to form enclaves has
resulted in the so-called Alien Town, City Bottom estate
converted by its residents into a home away from home
- or as near as they can make it. The tightly-packed build-
ings make for a bubbling melting pot of strange beings
from deep space, and excellent hiding places for illegal
aliens. The social heart of Alien Town is the Extraterres-
trial Trading & Social Club (Sector 22 East).
Ape Town - Ape Town is the largest colony of geneti-
cally-modified apes in Mega-City One, centred around
Queen Mum Street. The apes have replicated the typical
habitats of their Homo Sapien cousins with some success,
although a certain lack of mental finesse has resulted in
the stereotyping of the more dramatic aspects of human
society. The residents have adopted the roles of tri-D soap
stars and movie heroes/villains, perpetually re-enacting
these roles, modifying them to fit Ape Towns semi-de-
crepit environment (Sector 7 Central).
Chinatown - Also known as Sinotown, one of several
estates inhabited primarily by immigrants of the Far
Eastern Sino-Cities and their surrounding urban sprawls.
Chinese culture has changed very little in the centuries
since the first immigrants came to North American shores
in search of a better life, and the Triad gangs still hold
sway over the Sino-Citizens (Sector 88 East).
 Iso-block 666 - A particularly high-security prison
built to contain Mega-City Ones most feared criminals.
Despite its reputation as the place of no return, Iso-
block 666 has suffered three successful mass break-out
attempts, although most escapees find their escape routes
cut off by concentric rings of H-Wagon and Manta prowl
tank patrols waiting for such an eventuality. To date, only
the late Fink Angel - with the assistance of the Judge Child
- has managed to make a clean escape (Sector 40 East).
The Jungle - This Lowtown district - not to be con-
fused with the ape colony of Sector 51 - becomes an
occasional war zone when gangbangers from across the
quadrant congregate in their hundreds to prove their
superiority over their rivals. A major confront in 2105
became an excellent training opportunity for the crews
of Justice Department Manta prowl tanks who had only
just been issued with the state-of-the-art combat vehicles
(Sector 230 West).
Long Island Sector - The Justice Departments Atlan-
tic Division headquarters and dockyards.
The Maze - The F Loyd Mazny Scheme was at the
time Mega-City Ones most complex development, built
to house two million citizens in low-rise housing built in
a complex arrangement. The so-called Maze was so intri-
cate that an army of signposts had to be installed to allow
residents to navigate it, but in short order they were all
Crater Lake - A large shanty town spread along the destroyed by local vandals. The residents, unable to find
basin of the former Lake Ontario, which was drained by a their way out of the Maze, wondered for days searching
stray East-Meg nuclear missile struck. Crater Lake is home for the exit; 150 starved to death. The Maze was closed
to mutants, outcasts, fugitive criminals and thwarted hell- down and it architect wisely emigrated, but the labyrin-
trekkers who do not wish to return to life in the Big Meg. thine horror remains in place to this day, preserved by the
Mega-Trust for posterity. The Mazes outer suburbs have
Gang Alley - A violent urban wasteland where the
become a haunt for slabpackers and wanted criminals
gangs are in charge and the presence of Judges can often
(Sector 89 East).
only make matters worse. The Vi-Boys, Bloodsuckers, 9th
Street Psychos, Apaches and Wayward Girls constantly fight
bloody battles over territory, watched by terrified citizens
from behind their apartment curtains (Sector 36 East).
Dead Juves Curve - A spiralling traffic island and a leg- Iso-Block 666
endary proving ground for young hotrodders; any river who
can out race the competition and survive the lightning journey
from the top of Dead Juve Curve to its City Bottom off-ramp
is considered something of a legend (Sector 51 East).
Hayte Street - A street with the sorry reputation
of having Mega-City Ones highest crime figures; four-
thousand crimes are committed on Hayte Street every
day. Rookie Judges are taken on patrol loops along Hayte
Streets two-mile length to experience the phenomenon
first-hand, hoping they will not join the fast-growing list
of crime statistics (Sector 41 East).
The Island - The dream of slabpackers everywhere,
the semi-mythical Island is alleged to be a treasure trove
of equipment and valuables, but is really a spot located
beneath a convergence of meg-ways where citizens enter-
ing Mega-City One from the Transatlantic Tunnel dump
their contraband to avoid the harsh scrutiny of the Judges.
The Island is littered with the dead bodies of slabpackers
who have been lured to the place by the legends, to then
fight for possession of the valuables (Sector 100 East).

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Northways Bridge - One of the citys oldest bridges,
dating back to 2056 when it was conceived as a link be-
tween Mega-City One and Canadia (Sector 300 North).
Nuke Alley - The devastated wasteland between
Mega-City One and the Northwest Hab-Zone, located
beneath Hells Highway, the only surface bridge between
the two habitats. As radiation levels gradually fall, Nuke
Alley is being exploited as a transitory point for drug deals
and arms smuggling from Crater Lake.
Old New York - When Sector 44 East was designed
and the city that was New York rockcreted over, public
sentiment demanded an ancestral connection be main-
tained to link the old and new cities. In the heart of Sec-
tor 44 (sited directly over Lower Manhattan Island), the
district of Old New York was christened, its street names
based on famous concourses of the city below: Wall Street,
Broadway, State Street and Hanover Square, for example.
The Empire State Building was spared the fate of the rest
of New York and relocated above, and stands uneasily like
a crippled old man above the acid rain-pocked rooftops
of the pre-war tenements. The only cultural highlight
to be offered by Old New York is its City Bottom market
where a surprisingly diverse number of goods are traded,
including pre-Atom War antiques (Sector 44 East).
Orbital Suburbs - The
orbital suburbs of Mega-City
One float some 22,000 miles
above the earth, locked in
geo-stationary orbit above
North America. The Or-
burbs were conceived as
refuges for Mega-City Ones
elite, a place where they
could permanently escape
the slummies. The Nelson
Rockefeller Orburb was the
jewel in the crown of the
orburb enterprise. All this
came to a sorry end in 2105
when the Slum Clearance
Act was brought into effect,
and a considerable number
of slummie families given
the opportunity to share the
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orburbs. The Hightowners fled their
luxury homes, handing their estates
over to the slummies - which predict-
ably then descended into ghettoes.
The Rock - One of the first
mega-penitentiaries, the Rock was
modelled on Alcatraz, the legendary
prison island of Old New York City, a
visible deterrent for the rising tidal
wave of crime experienced by the ex-
panding Mega-City. Built in the 2040s,
the Rock was rendered obsolete by
the much larger iso-blocks and in
2128 is a tourist attraction complete
with holographic reconstructions of
its most notorious criminals and dramatic events to have
occurred within the Rocks four-metre thick walls (Sector
301 NWHab).
Simp Tank - The Population Observation and Control
unit (Simp Tank) is a serious scientific study of Mega-City
Ones simps, an attempt to discover what it is in a simps
mental make-up that makes them different. Subject simps
are contained within observation tanks, and occasionally
taken on field trips to study how they relate with the
outside world (Sector 27 East).
Slabyrinth - A radical design intended to facilitate
the efficient passage of high-volume traffic to and from
the many airports in MegCentral, the slabyrinth instead
caused major disruptions, its unusual architecture baffling
many drivers AL-manac nav-computers. Rapid software
patches rectified the problem, but the Slabyrinth remains
an environment unsuitable for inexperienced drivers
(Sector 7 Central).
Speakers Square - Most sectors have legally sanc-
tioned zones of free speech where strong viewpoints can
be voiced and heated arguments made. The Judges may
listen in on the debates, but they cannot arrest any of
the participants on the grounds of controversial or anti-
judicial topics.
 up and put on public display. Unfortunately, as with the
Parthenon (the other great foreign treasure imported by
Esquire) the White Cliffs fell victim to local crime (the
notorious scrawl king Chopper defaced it in 2103) and
later was partially levelled by a malfunctioning Citidef
missile test fire. Protest groups have campaigned to have
the White Cliffs Of Dover repatriated to their rightful place
in England, ignorant to the fact that there is no longer
any coast for it to be returned to (Sector 191 West).

SERVICES
Hoverports & Spaceports
Extra long-distance travel is commonplace in the 22nd
century; intercontinental flights take minutes instead
of hours and space flights are commonplace. Mega-City
One has many ports dedicated to terrestrial and space
traffic (known as hoverports and spaceports respectively,
collectively referred to as airports), the largest of which
are the Atlantic Central Hoverport, Kennedy Spaceport,
the Jim Grubb Memorial Hoverport and the Gil Gerrard
Memorial Spaceport.
To book a flight, a citizen makes a reservation using
Statue Of Judgement - Towering above the Statue the Megaweb. The next port of call is Check-In, where
Of Liberty, the Statue Of Judgement is the ultimate archi- flight tickets are processed and luggage separated from the
tectural symbol of the Justice Departments power. Since traveller to be loaded onto robot-driven trolleys and carried
the statue was rebuilt in 2117, the Justice Departments to the waiting hovership or spacecraft. Both luggage and
Public Surveillance Unit (PSU) has made the statues would-be traveller are searched thoroughly by Customs
hollow interior its new headquarters (Sector 44 East). Judges for contraband, weapons and contagion. Immigrants
Statue Of Liberty - The famous statue and symbol are processed via Immigration Control, while extraterrestrial
of Old America was a present from the French back in tourists are sent through the Alien Bureau.
1886. When Mega-City one was undergoing construction, Hoverships and spacecraft operate a VTOL system
Liberty Island was demolished and the statue relocated and so do not require a runway from which to launch
inland, overlooking the Huson Inlet. An act of terrorism or land. Besides the main terminus, launch pads and
in 2113 failed to destroy the statue but severed its torch- vehicle parks, airports feature fuel stores; in the event of
bearing hand, which was recovered and mounted on a a fuel leak or disaster of any kind, emergency teams can
great stone plinth nearby (Sector 44 East). marshal fire-trucks, SCS wagons and clean-up squads.
Tomb Of The Unknown Port Control can quickly crank blast shields into place if
Citizen - A small, unassum-
ing statue of a citizen run-
ning for his life as a large
boot is about to descend
to crush him, the Statue Of
The Unknown Citizen is a
symbol the downtrodden
nobodies can easily sym-
pathise with. (Sector 53
East).
White Cliffs Of Dover
- A section of the famous
white cliffs was sold off dur-
ing the construction of Brit-
Cits southwest sectors to
Mega-City One collector of
antiquities Noble Esquire,
and shipped at unimagina-
ble cost to the city where
it was internally shored

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launch pad sensors detect an explosion, isolating the pad
from adjoining the rest of the spaceport.
The airports of MegCentral are surrounded by city-
blocks inhabited by airport flight crew and staff, techni-
cians and emergency crews. The MegCentral City Bottom
leisure industry caters to the staff and the many thousands
of visitors that arrive in Mega-City One very week with
bars, clubs, eateries and mountains of gift stores; the
ever-present criminal element waits for the right moment
to steal what the tourists have just purchased.

Euthanasium
Considering the massive degree of overpopulation in
Mega-City One, it is no surprise that euthanasia has
been legalised. An industry providing the last service
thrives, a welcome release for the terminally, painfully
ill or depressed, or eldsters whose infirmities have seen
their once strong bodies reduced to chairbound sacks of
slobbering meat. Once a citizen decides on euthanasia
- for himself or another he has legal custodianship over
- he must apply to the Euthanasia Committee for permis-
sion to die. Once the appointment is within three weeks
of taking place, the citizen cannot back out and will be
forced to make the appointment by Judge escort if nec-
essary. In the Euthanasium, the patient lays in a quiet,
pleasant room and given the first of two injections. The
first shot relaxes his mind and muscles. During this ten
minute period, the patient can elect to view a panorama
of his choosing, from a tranquil scene of nature to his
favourite aeroball stadium, projected in sensurround.
Soon, the final, lethal injection is administered and the
patient dies peacefully. His body is bagged and stored in directed at hospital staff (thieves stealing robo-docs and
the euthanasiums mortuary ready to be taken to Resyk. armed drug addicts raiding medicine stores), the Eisen-
hower has been granted a squad of Block Judges (Sector
148 South).
Hospital Block
The Eisenhower is one of Mega-City Ones major hospital
blocks and the centre of civilian sector Crisis Control
Weather Control
operations, delivering specialist intensive care for mass Mega-City One installed the worlds first urban weather
cases of burn, radiation, disease, chemical and biologi- control system following the Great Atom War to spare the
cal-related injuries. The Eisenhower - like all hospital citizens from the climactic devastation sweeping across
blocks - exists to treat ill health beyond the capabilities the Cursed Earth. Weather Control remained a fixture of
or resources of cityblock med-levels. Mega-City one life until the late 2110s when neglect and
Any patient referred to the Eisenhower comes pack- financial underinvestment took its toll and it ceased to
aged with a complete lifes worth of medical records ac- be a reliable climate regulator. In 2127, portions of the
cessed through Barney the City Hall computer and credit Weather Control network remain active, but for other
rating based on their ability - or willingness - to pay for regions the advice from City Hall has been annoyingly
past medical treatment. A patient whose credit rating is to wrap up against acid storms and take anti-rad pills on
not found to be satisfactory will be refused treatment and a regular basis.
referred back to his block-med. Weather Control is a network of satellite stations sur-
The Eisenhower has a 20,000 strong population of rounding Weather Control Central, a massive antigravity
med-techs and robodocs, governed by the Board Of wheel anchored in the cloud layer. The amazing technolo-
Doctors who retire to mid-block luxy-apts when their gies utilised by Weather Control allow it to create any
services are not required. A fleet of auto-medics serve type of weather system at the touch of a button within
the Eisenhower, delivering new admissions or returning the borders of Mega-City One. Any weather condition
discharged patients who remain incapacitated to their can be generated, from a heatwave, rain and snow to
homes. In the wake of growing incidents of violence gale-force winds and even tornadoes ordered into being
by the Justice Department to sweep the streets clear of
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 Weather Control Station
Spd (11) Crew (8) Passengers (14)

All Weather Control stations have a squad of

Judges who provide a deterrent to any
who might plan to turn the potentially
devastating technologies against
Mega-City One. Despite these
precautions, the East-Meg One
saboteur Orlok managed to do
just that in 2103, contaminat-
ing the water saturation pumps
with the madness-inducing
chemical C402, unleashing it
on the city in the form of tor-
rential rain.

Services, Misc.
Mega-City Necropolis - A
citizen can have his loved one
mummified inside a glasseen
sarcophagi and stored for display
inside one of the Mega-City One Ne-
cropoliss many tombs. This service is expensive (prices
start at 50,000c), and require a waiver fee to spare the
body from the normal Resyk procedures.
Mega-City Teleport - Following decades of false starts
and terrible accidents during its research and develop-
ment phase, teleportation eventually became a viable and
relatively inexpensive service to the citizens of Mega-City
One. Strictly regulated by the Justice Department, a citi-
zen enters a teleport booth at one side of the city and exits
instantaneously at the other; if he has paid for a global
permit, the citizen can travel further and port over to any
city-state that has signed up to the service. Senior Judges
make occasional use of the teleport network when their
authority is urgently required at a considerable distance;
rank-and-file Street Judges do not have the authorisation
without first obtaining permission directly from their Tac-
Leader (Sector 223 West).
Mega-Tech - Mega-City Ones most well-known labo-
ratory, Mega-Tech researches every experimental school of
scientific frontiers and then some, including time travel,
genetic engineering, quantum physics, dimensional travel,
shapeshifting and hyper-advanced robotics. Mega-Tech
receives funding from the Justice Department to develop
new equipment, specialist weapons and improved body
armour (Sector 65 East).
Waste Disposal - Cityblocks have sub-level waste col-
lection vats and can recycle small amounts of said refuse,
recycling the water; larger waste is collected by garbage
trucks and taken to a waste recycling centre. Non-organic
waste is emptied into receptacles at the local Mega-Waste
Disposal Plant, sent through the grinding vat and steri-
lised with ultraviolet radiation to destroy any harmful
bacteria. The penultimate phase of the process sees the
waste devoured by millions of genetically engineered fang
worms. The fang worms excrete the waste as a simple
paste, collected and transported to recon factories to be
reformulated as furniture, textiles, industrial fluids and
composite metals.
The recently deceased are sent to one of five Resyk
plants via smaller terminals where they are piled up with
thousands of other bodies and fed onto massive conveyor
belts to be stripped of skin, hair, muscle and organ, all
rendered, poured and sorted into separate chemicals to
be redistributed to city industry for use as cosmetics and
petfood. Citizens do not generally wish to watch as their
loved one trundles into the flesh mills, instead saying
their goodbyes in a Bower of Remembrance where the
corpse is encased in an ornamental coffin; after passing
through velvex curtains, it is opened and the body placed
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 a r o u n d the
BLOCK
The buildings of Mega-City One are designed for the
containment of large numbers of citizens, and terrace
upon terrace of corporate industry. The largest structures
are those dedicated to residential housing and the robot
factories of the dust-zones, while the tallest belong to the
privileged few. Notorious as the most densely populated
megalopolis on Earth, Mega-City One nevertheless cannot
be accused of apathy - floating habitats (aircons) have
taken many citizens above the crowded slabwalks and
rehoused them in antigravity suburbia. Space condomini-
ums (condos) have taken population relocation one step
further, self-contained metal islands that trace graceful
orbits within the solar system.
The landscape of Mega-City One is dominated by
thousands of cityblocks, towers designed to house many
thousands of citizens in comfort. The basic cityblock
design was conceived in the early 21st century and re-
mains largely unchallenged; more recent developments
have wider foundations and reach further into the skies
(starscrapers), but they still closely follow the basic archi-
tectural pattern. The ideal of the cityblock was to provide
housing, business and leisure facilities for a large number
of residents to such a comprehensive extent that a citizen
could conceivably live his life within the cityblock walls
and never have to leave.
With a crushing population density to cope with and
new development space at a high premium, cityblocks are
sited very close to one another. This means many of the
smaller service industries that prior to the construction
of Mega-City One were located on their own estates now
have to be relocated within the cityblocks to conserve
ground space. This is not the norm for all extrablock in-
terests and a number of sectors are divided more evenly
between cityblock and miscellaneous structures. Mega-
City One has become an architects nightmare, a triumph
of function over style or beauty, but in this instance,
necessity must take precedence over aesthetics.
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Cityblocks fall into four broad categories: Pre-Atomic,
Post-Atomic, Conapt and Luxy-Block.
Pre-Atomic blocks are those that were constructed
before the Great Atom War. They are shorter, narrower,
rectangular and have fewer modern amenities than later
designs.
Post-atomic blocks count for all the cityblocks con-
structed after the Atom War to the present day. They are
characterised by their vaguely conical design, bulbous
foundations and domed roofs.
Conapts are much smaller than pre or post-atomic city-
blocks and offer apartments with larger dimensions and
sometimes a private security force patrolling the grounds.
(Conapt is a contraction of connecting apartment and
is used to describe an apartment of above average qual-
ity within a cityblock and also a conapt block, a building
dominated by connecting apartments).
The final category of cityblock is the luxy-block, taller
than its plebeian neighbours and the subject of some in-
novative construction techniques that only Hightowners
can afford to enjoy.
Many other minor categories of cityblock exist, sub-
types of the four general types. Their architecture will
not differ significantly from the template; rather, it is the
nature of their inhabitants which defines their classifica-
tion. These blocks include hermitage blocks (no Block
Judges or surveillance systems by residents consent),
art blocks (wallscrawling and defacement of structure
is legal within block limits as an expression of residents
creativity), peace blocks (new-age communes), tribal
blocks (old world barbarism practised; minimal modern
technologies) and single blocks, bite-sized habs for loners
and the lonely.
 PRE-ATOMIC BLOCK
A pre-atomic cityblock (hi-rise, or vue-rise) is a tower
constructed before 2070 and after 2023, when the ar-
chitects of Mega-City One rockcreted over Washington
DC and New York. Pre-atomic cityblocks range in height
from 500 to 700 metres, altitudes that once were only
the province of an elite number of global landmarks.
Each block may have as many as 150 levels (divide the
metres-height by four to get an approximate level total).
Despite the state-of-the-art technologies that went into
their construction, from the outset, pre-atomic blocks
were widely criticised for their unattractive, retrospec-
tive facades, reminiscent of the grey and monotonous
tower blocks adopted by world development agencies in
the latter 20th century. Construction duties of the pre-
atomic cityblocks were tendered to private development
companies who were also to govern the blocks after their
completion, extracting rent from the residents (rent was
and continues to be the only method of acquiring an apart-
ment in Mega-City One, unless one is wealthy enough to
purchase a Hightown property outright). The controlling
executives of the development companies became known
as Blocklords.
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Design
Before post-atomic blocks refined the ideal of dividing
a single containing space between residential quarters,
parks, shopplexes, public forums and leisure facilities,
the concept of the cityblock was simply to cram as many
citizens into as tight a space as possible (15-20,000).
The block atrium was a wide, sunlit space surrounded
by galleries linked to apartment levels. On entering the
block via automatic doors, one could look up - and up
- towards the blocks ceiling, watching sunlight cascade
across the glasseen covering and down into the atrium.
A block park was sited at the centre of the atrium floor
to be maintained regularly by a team of block regulators
(janitors). From the atrium, residents and visitors took
escalators to the upper levels. A larger, central elevator
carried heavy goods. In later designs, as the height of
the block increased, the escalator was superseded by
highspeed, button-activated elevator cars (Els) arranged
in banks around the buildings rockcrete core. One inter-
esting feature of the pre-atomic elevator systems was a
hydraulic spring sited on the floor of each shaft, designed
to protect and cushion malfunctioning elevator cars and
their occupants against power failure or sabotage. Emer-
gency stairs ran the blocks height should the elevators be
put out of commission, accessible through fire doors.
 The blocks power generators were located in the
basement, along with water and air conditioning pumps,
POST-ATOMIC BLOCK
electrical switchgear, electric cable buses and gas pipes. The Great Atom War taught the governments of Mega-City
Before AGO technology was perfected, all external main- One many lessons. One was: Build our cityblocks better!
tenance work had to be carried out by contract cleaners The nuclear strikes were largely deflected by Mega-City
using platforms winched down the blocks side from Ones laser defence system, but it could not prevent the
rooftop cranes. aftershocks caused by missiles falling short of their target
and detonating near the city. Shockwaves rumbled across
Mega-City One, creating instability in the citys founda-
Habitats tions; portions collapsed into the Undercity, while a good
Having travelled to the desired level, the resident exited number of cityblocks collapsed.
into a series of corridor leading eventually to his apart-
ment. Most pre-atomic blocks were subdivided into four
blocks, each occupying a quarter of the buildings inhabit-
Administration
able vertical volume; at least two elevators serviced each Each cityblock is governed by Block Committee. The
compartment. Each block contained the same number of committee members (councillors) are elected by the
apartments, built directly next to one another, separated block residents every six months and are responsible
by inexpensive brick walls. The inner corridor overlooked for their cityblocks smooth and trouble-free operations.
the block atrium, while the outer corridors offered a view Council meetings are chaired by a robot called Mr Speaker
of Mega-City One through large glasseen windows. who ratifies council votes and downloads new, revised
Every apartment was built to the same template, an- or revoked laws for immediate implementation. Block
ticipating a certain fiscal bracket of resident, a mixture of residents receive notice of changes to local law via their
low income earners and those dependant on the welfare habputers. They may watch council meetings in session
state. The apartments were furnished with basic kitchen from the comfort of their apartments, but most remain
and bathroom units and Megaweb access. All domestic profoundly disinterested at the slightest notion of any-
waste had to be deposited in a chute located inside the thing remotely political. Block Talk is a programme run by
atrium-ward face of each level where they would drop
into ground-level bins to be collected and taken by truck
to the early mega-waste disposal units.
Pre-atomic apartments were divided into four rooms
(the living room/kitchenette, two bedrooms and one
bathroom). The living room was the only room to have
a window, and that was only provided for apartments
located along the outer walls. The inner apartments were
recompensed with virtuascapes, two-dimensional flat-
screen monitors replaying moving images of one of sev-
eral relaxing environments as selected by the viewer.
The pre-atomic block lacked back-up power generators
and so was completely at the mercy of Mega-City Ones
prototypical and embarrassingly unreliable Nuclear Grid
which subjected the entire megalopolis to power black-
outs at the most inconvenient of times.

Who Lives In A Block Like This?

The pre-atomic blocks that have survived to see 2128
are many decades old; their rockcrete walls are cracked,
pitted and blackened by low-level pollution. Frequently
reduced to standing in the shadows of the post-atomic
cityblocks, pre-atomic residents live in a twilight world
were the sun no longer shines into the block atrium and
the shadows are always long. Pre-atomic blocks are closer
to City Bottom and more vulnerable to attacks from rang-
ing sub-humes and gangs of delinquent slummies. These
older precincts Pre-atomic districts report a higher rate of
missing persons (from quite natural causes on occasion),
due partly to tap gangs, drug-addled tap gangs, hungry
feral animals and removal men (professional abductors)
who sell their victims onto organised crime for organleg-
ging body parts and slavery.

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the block committee to try to engage the local populations
interest, inviting them to voice issues of concern to guest
councillors, as mediated by Mr Speaker.
The hard work of block repair and maintenance is
performed by teams of labour robots stored in garages
near the main power generators until their services are
required. Not all cityblocks are of sufficient size to warrant
their own robot contingent and so the block committee
must petition Sector Maintenance Services (a division of
the Construction Department) for assistance, a process
that can take weeks owing to the never-ending backlog
of similar requests from many other cityblocks.
Apartments
Cityblocks are primarily constructed with a view to hous-
ing citizens, and apartments (habs) are the units that
contain them. Specific apartments are identified by two
sets of digits and a letter, arranged 1/2c (a being the
level number, b the sub-division the apartment belongs
to, and c being the actual apartment. For example: Apt
146/5g). The apartment is a prefabricated box with
four walls, internal partitions and ports for wiring and
plumbing.
The average apartment costs around 4,000c a month
in rent, and contains a habputer (tri-D multimedia en-
tertainment centre with access to Barney the City Hall
computer, the block committee and the Megaweb), a ser-
vorama food preparation unit, garbage grinder (priming
waste for transit to the local mega-waste disposal plant),
suite, sink, lavatory (flushing human waste to compost
vats, ultimately to become fuel for industrial methane
plants located elsewhere in the sector), bath (or) shower
and a domodroid to assist with household chores.
Hightown apartments (luxy-apts, or hyper-apts) are
at least four times the size of a Lowtown counterpart,
with monthly rental starting at around 20,000c. The liv-
ing room occupies a third of this area, the remainder of
the volume divided between a state-of-the-art kitchen, a
king-sized bedroom and equally large luxury bathroom.
There is no practical limit to the size of a luxy-apt; adjoin-
ing modules can be added, partition walls relocated or
removed as the resident desires.
The average luxy-apt living room is furnished with a
state-of-the-art sensurround habputer. As an extension to
the entertainment theme, the resident will have at least
one VR helmet to immerse him in a convincing fantasy
environment of his choosing complete with full-spectrum
sensory stimuli. All furniture with in the luxy-apt is in-
telligently ergonomic and will change its design to best
suit the occupants current posture. Any item of portable
furniture will be driven by antigravity plates powered by
an underfloor AGO. All the luxy-apts electronic features
are voice-activated, including air conditioning, heating
and window controls.
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The luxy-apt kitchen practically makes the residents
meals for them, robot arms performing all the duties of
a cook from preparing the food (synthesising from an
armoury of basic nutritional components) to washing up
after the meal and cleaning the kitchen. Some Hightown-
ers like to be pampered along more personal lines and so
purchase a robo-chef to bring their meals to the table and
add some shine to the occasion. Luxy-apt bathrooms are
similarly robot-driven: the lavatory coaxes, warms and
wipes the users arse and the sink washes, shaves and
dries his face. For a more comprehensive clean, a null-grav
bath suspends the bather within a sphere of warm water,
and a sonic shower strips dirt from his pores without any
need for water. The bedroom features a de luxe suction or
air-bed for maximum comfort. Domodroids come to the
occupants aid, offering sedatives should he have difficulty
sleeping, a wake-up call in the morning, and assistance
in dressing.
Luxy-apt owners who seek to protect their valuables
from block criminals can choose from deterrents like the
shockstrip that fits snugly around the main entrance and
windows to deliver a powerful electric shock to unwanted
visitors (a Street Judges belt recognition chip instructs
the device to deactivate, allowing the Juddge inside). One
alternative, pain-free deterrent is the securicam, fitted
over the door, transmitting the images of a break-in in
progress directly to the monitors of private security firms
located within the block
Architecture
The next generation of cityblock was designed with
longevity in mind. Nicknamed the gnome because of its
bulbous and lumpy silhouette, the post-atomic cityblock
provides maximum structural integrity, featuring modu-
lar elements that allow for a limited increase of internal
volume. Post-atomic block shells are built from cylindrical
plasteen blocks which lock together, forming the blocks
core and foundations, descending into the Undercity.
The blocks outer shell is formed of stacked, truncated
domes, their diameter decreasing with each ascending
tier to help reduce wind resistance. The topmost dome
is capped with a vaulted roof.
Post-atomic cityblocks measure between 600 to well
over 1,500 metres in height and contain between 150 to
600 levels. The upper levels are vulnerable to powerful
winds, and so each dome above a predetermined height
is mounted on a computer-controlled, pressure-respon-
sive track allowing the cityblock to sway gently without
suffering structural damage. This movement can induce
nausea among some sensitive citizens, but most find their
block legs before long.
Biz-Level
Every block has its own business community, allocated
units in their very own space called a biz-level. The biz-
cits rent ecom units on a monthly basis from the Hous-
ing Department, and have some influence over how the
biz-levels are maintained. Any biz-cit wishing to set up
shop on a biz-level must run the Block Business Federa-
tion (BLuF) gamut and have his wares scrutinised for
suitability. The block committee has ultimate veto over
any BLuF decision, but generally trusts the biz-levels to
self-regulate. The biz-level society is divided unevenly
between human and robot (ro-biz) tradesbeings; resent-
ment exists between the two parties, the biz-cits jealous
of their robot rivals ability to keep their stores open all
day every day and so steal away the humans custom-
ers. The ro-biz are frustrated that they are not allowed
seats on the block committee despite paying their rent, a
limitation the biz-cits regard as helping to even the odds
somewhat. Biz-cits are among the very few members of
their block to enjoy employment, and so can afford to
invest in high-level apartments, but their very affluence
also makes them potential victims for patrolling block tap
gangs (the on-taps).
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Block Park
These colourful expanses of synthi-grass, winding paths
and clearings are the closest approximation to a pre-
atomic outdoors park most citizens will ever experience.
Block parks are designed to give equal pleasure to all
members of cityblock society, subtly partitioning juve
play areas from eldster resteries (benches, robo-duck
ponds and cafes) and dult favourites like sports courts
and picnic hills with edible, self-regenerating foliage.
The block park has its own environment control system,
able to generate all seasonal conditions and all weather
types from a blistering heatwave to rain, snow and ice
(for skating on the block pond). The largest block park
will be equipped with its very own beach, made up of
reconstituted rockcrete sand and pebbles. Pumps along
the beach zones edge force the water back and forth
along the beach to simulate the tide. Robot park-keepers
(parkies) keep the place tidy and trouble free (reporting
crimes to the Justice Department), while lithe mangard
robots watch over the block beach, ready to drag strug-
gling swimmers to safety with their telescopic arms and
buoyant chests.
Education
Block schools are large and well-equipped, their duty
to prepare the blocks juves for a life of unemployment
and extensive leisure time. The block schools must also
work very hard at instilling respect for the law, for great
lengths of leisure time are constantly being met with the
temptation to pursue the quick and easy path to self-
fulfilment (antisocial, scaling up to criminal behaviour).
Children are admitted to block school from the age of
five and will remain members until they are twenty-five.
Tutorobots take the juves through curriculums covering
many subjects: science, history, languages (principally
those spoken in Mega-City One by natives and main ethnic
groups), the history of Mega-City One, sex education and
regular classes exploring the benefits of the modern jus-
tice system. Half of term time is consumed by the Hobby
Foundation Courses (HFC), wherein juves interests
and talents are scrutinised and the juve encouraged to
develop them into full-time occupations. The tutorobots
maintain detailed computer logs of all the juves in their
classes, monitoring their moral development. Information
like burgeoning fringe political sympathies and criminal
predisposition are passed onto the Justice Departments
PSU for analysis.
Every cityblock has one or more Block Judge, their
resident peacekeepers. These Judges regularly attend
block school to give lectures on law and order, and relate
honest, stark and frightening real-life accounts of Mega-
City One life; few adult citizens ever forget the days the
Judges visited them in block school. During summer
break, children are offered places at a nearby megaplex, a
camp of sorts where children can learn about all manner
of subjects not covered by the normal curriculum. Juves
with unusual abilities like psi-power can be detected and
studied in the megaplexs Psi-Camp, behind the superfi-
ciality of entertaining mind games.
On graduating, young citizens have the option of
continuing their education at the Mega-Us, the citys uni-
versity network. University courses can run for years or
decades, depending on how committed the students wish
to remain. Diplomas and masters degrees in unemploy-
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ment, sports and hobbies are the most popular courses,
followed by media studies and science.
Entertainment
Community sports facilities are a vital component of
block society, providing a focus for block pride and an
enjoyable day out for families. Every block has its own
sports stadium, a custom-designed level several storeys
high with a pitch, row upon row of bleachers, eateries,
rest-rooms, team locker rooms and commentators box.
Most blocks have their own aeroball, smashball or block-
out teams (sometimes all three), named after their home
block. Matches are played home and away, as friendlies
with allied blocks, or play-offs as part of the Intersec-
tor/Region/City Leagues.
Music and entertainment are equally as important to
the lives of many citizens as sport. The sports stadium
- modified accordingly - works well as a venue for music
and theatre. Some tweenblock plazas are large enough
to accommodate permanent vibe-bowls and dramarenas,
open-air arenas with superb acoustics where music, lec-
tures and drama can be enjoyed.
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 Foyer
All City Bottom entrances (automatic sliding or revolving
doors) lead directly into the block foyer. The foyer con-
nects directly to the blocks outdoor tweenblock plaza, a
huge public domain linking neighbouring cityblocks with
numerous mulitlevel pedways. The foyer functions as a
concourse, offering various routes for residents wishing
to travel further into the block using elevator banks and
AGCs. Recognising that not all visitors are familiar with
the blocks layout, information terminals can display tri-D
maps indicating the users present position and that of his
intended destination. The foyer is typically dotted with
small stores catering to the pedestrian: eateries, synthi-
caf shops, slug-vendors, con-stores, teksmiths, fash-ups,
restrooms and florists. Traditionally the favourite haunt of
juves, most block foyers are equipped with vircades and
drop-out shelters. Depending on the size of the foyer, one
of more statues commissioned from local artists provide
a central focal point. The subject of the sculpture could
be anybody of note, from the personality the block is
named after, to a famous blocker or a completely abstract
work of art. If further entertainment is required, licensed
foyerists (foyer artists) provide drama and music. Where
space permits, religious groups stake out territory to try
to convert the citizens to their religion, and licensed
sparechangers sell vid-slugs from grotty carrilots, earning
just enough from daily proceeds to buy a tasty grot-pot
and a six-pack of old spleen.
Med-Level
Ill and injured citizens report to the block med-level (often
just called the hospital), containing dozens of med-bays.
The recently deceased are taken to the block mortuary
for storage, before being shipped to Resyk for a coroners
report and possible autopsy before it is recycled. Human
medics deal with all local health issues outside of major
Powerbuses like these keep cityblocks in
electricity and heat. They are suspended
high above the ground to protect
pedestrians from potentially harmful
electrical leakages, but are vulnerable to
sabotage by terrorists and pranksters.
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surgery, whereby robo-docs are used, their intimate and
exhaustive programmed knowledge of the human body
(and numerous alien physiologies) rivalled only by the
exacting precision of their surgical tools. Incidents where
residents are too ill to make their way to the med-level are
dealt with by teams of med-techs. As standard practice,
the Justice Department is informed of all John and Jane
Does (citizens who cannot immediatel be identified)
admitted into a block hospital.
Power Supply
Cityblocks are fed power from a number of sources.
Mega-City Ones main mode of power is nuclear, utilising
a highly-refined, foolproof, robot-controlled technology.
Supplementing nuclear power is geothermic: Mega-City
one has two (soon to be three) Power Towers which draw
intense heat up from the Earths crust and convert it into
steam to drive thousands of turbines, generating electric-
ity. Hydroelectricity follows a similar system to geothermal,
but instead exploits the kinetic energy of rushing water
to motivate the turbines. A number of MegEast sectors
along the Atlantic Wall are reliant on hydro-energies
generated by hydropower plants. The fourth major en-
ergy source is solar; the tallest blocks have hundreds of
solar collectors arranged around their peaks and upper
domes to feed Hightown light, power and heating. In
addition, cityblocks have their own power generators,
located in the lower levels, supplementing the imported
nuclear and geothermal supplies. In the event of a city
grid blackout, these generators will automatically enter
full output mode, sufficient to restore lighting and other
essential block systems for several hours.
 Promenade
If a citizen could be envisaged living his entire life within
the walls of a single cityblock, then appropriate facilities
have to be provided by law to give him somewhere to
exercise. Promenades are vast, open spaces perfect for
walking or running off the stresses of everyday living.
Gymnasiums and healthy food eateries are a common
presence in promenades, as are slimpickers, talent scouts
from sports academies searching for an athlete to wear
their strip at the next Block or Mega-Olympics. By day the
promenades are a reasonably friendly place to hang out,
but as night falls the decent citizens make tracks for home
and the block gangs strut in to reclaim their territory. The
gangs spend the nights drinking, shouting and fighting.
If the Judges do not intercede to move the gangs on or
make arrests, morning finds the promenade strewn with
litter, vomit and bruised bodies soon to be carried off to
the block hospital for treatment.
Security
Citi Defence Corp (Citidef, or just CD) operations are
centred around a block armoury, basically a lock-box
filled with pistols, rifles, grenades, missile launchers,
body armour and jetpacks. The armoury will be sited in
the top half of a cityblock, adjoining a private podport
where the Citidef gunships are docked. The armoury is
protected by a blast door, whose access code is known
only to the CD sergeant. Any unauthorised breach of the
armoury will be instantly reported to PSU, and through
it referred back to the Block Judges.
Every cityblock has one or more resident Block Judges.
They are the first point of contact for residents who wish
to speak personally to a member of the Justice Depart-
ment. The Block Judges conduct ped-patrols throughout
the block, making arrests as they go, handcuffing felons to
holding posts located every few levels. A regular feature
of the Block Judges routine is the Block Court, whereby
citizens are brought before a single nominated Block
Judge to air their local grievances.
Transportation
Cityblocks are so large they form the junctions of sector
transport networks. Ground and hover vehicles are di-
rected by feeds into sizeable vehicle parks, controlled by
robots. Pedestrians use dozens of pedways and zipstrips
connecting the block to tweenblock plazas, or connect-
ing directly with nearby cityblocks. The larger cityblocks
have their own zoom stations, a pair of maglev tracks
(one each for uptown and downtown travel), platforms,
mobile ticket vendors, restrooms, slug-vendors and eater-
ies. Tickets can be purchased through habputers or from
vendor-bots at the zoom station.
Cityblocks rely on banks of express elevators to carry
residents to their destination level. Standards of elevator
model vary, from keyboard navigation to vocal interface
systems. Aside from technological variations, three types
of elevator, defined by differing sizes, exist. Type-1 eleva-
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tors are the normal model, used frequently by up to twelve
citizens a time. Type-2 elevators are industrial-scale, used
to carry freight. Type-3 elevators are the private property
of the blocks robot caretakers, lacking lighting or heating
and capable of velocities that would leave human users
physically sick. Type-1 and Type-2 elevators are located
around the blocks core, arranged in banks of three.
Available to the more modern cityblock developments
are antigravity chutes (AGC), transparent, vertical tubes
that convey residents using small AGO engines at the
top and bottom of the chutes. The user extends his arms
sideways to slow his movement, raising or lowering them
to move up and down respectively.
Cross-level travel is carried out mainly on foot, but
slidewalks (moving pavements) offer jogging speed tran-
sit. For disabled, elderly or plain lazy residents, small,
one-man vehicles called block buggies are available. They
are free of charge, and stored in buggy parks when no
longer needed.
In the event of fire, chemical attack or block instabil-
ity, every level has a number of glide-chutes stored in
cabinets along each corridor. They are small, antigravity
devices that can be held with one hand, activated when
the user reaches a specific velocity. When a dire emer-
gency threatens the cityblock and the elevators are out
of commission, residents can escape by jumping out of
emergency exits, floating gently towards the block plaza,
their glide-chutes homing in on beacons located around
the plazas edge. A number of the more recent block de-
signs include slide-tubes, high-speed elevators armoured
to protect their occupants against explosive or extreme
heat damage.
Vehicle Parks
Many cityblocks have ground vehicle parks called parka-
ramas, the largest being the underpark, accessible from a
feed along City Bottom. The underpark is multilevelled,
with large elevators storing arrivals in vacant parking
places. Due to the dynamic nature of Mega-City One life,
Lowtown residents are not entitled to a fixed parking spot.
When he requires his vehicle to be retrieved, a resident
makes the request through habputer. Citizens who can
afford hover vehicles make use of upper-level podports.
Waste Disposal
Every item of refuse generated by a cityblocks population
is recycled for reconstitution as construction or nutrient
materials. Garbage grinders in every apartment (and in
every corridor) shred packaging and small, light furniture
into slivers which are then forced down garbage chutes
into bins located in the blocks sublevels for collection by
garbage trucks. Waste too large to insert into a garbage
crushers jaws are stored in ecom units, accessible by
Type-2 elevators. The heavy waste is collected and fed into
fang worm vats at the local mega-waste disposal plant
where the waste is digested and excreted as constituent
chemicals, ready for integration into the manufacturing
process. Human waste products are directed from bath-

rooms to the blocks sublevel to be stored in sewage hop-
pers and bilge tanks. Fluids are decanted and purified, and
then re-circulated around the block as tap water. Faecal
remains are separated and stored in airtight containers,
to be delivered to a methane plant, exposed to powerful
strains of bacteria and decomposed, the resultant gaseous
emissions becoming a potent fuel source.
CITYBLOCK VARIANTS
Eld-Shelt
Mega-City One has a sizeable population of OACs
(Old-Aged Citizens). Advances in medical science have
increased the natural life-span of the 22nd century hu-
man, with many of its beneficiaries expecting to live into
their early hundreds. Unfortunately, several age-related
diseases persist as mutated variants, causing the elderly
the same difficulties suffered by the old folk of our time.
Nearing the end of their lives, OACs may not be able to
remain in their homes, even with the assistance of a car-
ing domodroid. The eld-shelt (crockblock) offers fragile
OACs permanent, sheltered accommodation funded by
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the Housing Department. Eld-shelts lack pedways and
vehicle parks as most residents are not physically fit
enough to leave the premises. Elevators and slidewalks
are in abundance to take the weight off the eldsters feet
- the most infirm pushed around in robo-chairs. When not
snoozing in their apartments, the eldsters congregate in
quiet, stiflingly warm block parks, feeding the robo-ducks,
knitting synthetti winter clothes and reminiscing about
vaguely-remembered youthful exploits.
Eld-shelts are located in the quieter areas of Mega-
City One, far from the superslabs, but this does not
guarantee the location will be an altogether pleasant
one. A number of eld-shelts have been built against the
West Wall, partially exposed to radiation mists seeping
in from the Cursed Earth. This does not seem to concern
the eld-shelt developers who view their inhabitants as at
best temporary. All eld-shelts have their own med-bay,
including a sizeable mortuary.
Luxy-Block
The ultimate in cityblock living, luxy-blocks stand be-
tween 800 to 2,000 metres in height and are designed
by Mega-City Ones most highly sought-after architects.
No two luxy-blocks look the same but they are all sure
to be eye-catching, colourful to the point of garish and
experimental in their choice of building materials. In the
midst of a sea of grey, lumpy cityblocks, the luxy-block
stands graceful and proud, its ornate spire piercing the
heavens like a giants needle.
The residents of luxy-block hyper-apts are the citys
elite: business executives, entertainment industry ce-
lebrities and political heavyweights. Their penthouse
apartments occupy entire levels and be decorated in a
manner only limited by the residents imagination. Biz-cit
penthouses tend to be ultramodern, clean and geometric
and highly-mechanised, while entertainment celebrities
recognise no limits of extravagance or taste. Politicians
decorative tastes are narrow, selecting either the biz-cit
model, or reaching back into history to recall the exotic
era of the American Senate with great expanses of wood
(imported from Canadia), marble and gold. Every luxy-
apt will have at least one podport. Luxy-block borders are
heavily secured, their corridors and block plazas alive with
bodyguards and securicams linked to the watchtowers of
the blocks multitude of competing
pri-sec companies. Luxy-blocks have
biz-levels to serve the residents
needs. The stores are fewer in
number than those sited in com-
parable biz-levels of the Lowtown
cityblocks, but their wares are of the
highest quality and often exclusive
to the luxy-block community, offer-
ing the very best of Mega-City One
luxuries and technologies alongside
exquisite treasures purchased across
the globe and the galaxy by dedi-
cated teams of acquisitors.
 Problem Block
A worrying proportion of citizens have strong, inherent
antisocial tendencies. They may not enough to warrant
an iso-cube sentence, but chronic exposure to such be-
haviour can cause extreme levels of distress among their
placid, law-abiding neighbours. Should an individual
or family prove to be career anti-socials (Ansos), the
Justice Department will serve a notice of eviction, with
the culprits removed forthwith from their apartment and
relocated to a cityblock where they will be placed among
other Ansos; these undesirable dwellings are known
as problem blocks. By the time Ansos have made the
problem block their home, all attempts to rehabilitate
them into civil society have failed. They have been im-
prisoned, counselled, humiliated and medicated, but they
remain tenacious social pests, and the only remaining
option available to the Justice Department is to contain
their behaviour. The typical problem block resembles a
slum, their every resident Welfare-dependant, shockingly
lacking in self-awareness, little more than a slack-jawed
primate. His apartment will be covered in discarded food
containers and unwashed clothes. His habputer is hardly
ever switched off, the volume control seemingly stuck on
high. Problem Block walls are thick with illegible graffiti
and barely domesticated dogs and cats roam the floors,
biting passers-by for a scrap of nourishment their slovenly
owners are too lazy to give them. Violence among Ansos
is common, provoked by the most trivial of reasons.

(above) The Jackie Onassis Hab-Developments,

(Sector 143 South). Typical of luxy-block plan-
ning, it has few neighbours, and none overlook-
ing its tenants extravagant hyper-apt balconies.
All feed roads leading to and from the block are
private (bar Justice Department business), and
podports among the upper levels are plentiful.
The roof is topped by a state-of-the-art megaband
communications station, below which is a city-
renowned observatory & art gallery.

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BUSINESS

Mega-City One is a free-market economy, encouraging Energy - Mega-City One is fifty-percent self-sufficient
investment and enterprise. All major industries have long in the energy supply stakes, drawing on practically in-
been deregulated, which encourages competition for busi- finite geothermal energies through the Power Towers.
ness from the citizens, and the never-ending price wars. The remaining energy requirements are provided by
It also - unfortunately for the citizens - means a variable nuclear (driven by imported fuel rods), hydroelectric and
degree of disjointedness between service providers: a solar power corporations. The transport industry utilises
high-quality of service supplied by the transport provider largely-imported synthoil and rechargeable hi-capacity
in certain regions of Mega-City One may connect to sub- fuel cells to power the citys millions of vehicles.
par services in other regions scoped by competitors. De-
regulated as the citys business sector is, major corporate
incompetence leading to service inadequacies will not be
Secondary
tolerated by the Justice Department who will waste little Manufacturing - Mega-City Ones manufacturing base
time in dragging chief executives from their luxy-apts and could not exist without a comprehensive recycling pro-
throwing them into an iso-cube for their crimes. gram. All mega-cities were designed to be as self-sufficient
as possible with the level of technology available at the
time. The amazing multipurpose material Polypropylop
INDUSTRIES
Primary
Agriculture & Farming - Mega-City Ones food supply
is divided between wholly synthetic and genetically-modi-
fied (GM) sources. An astounding variety of foodstuffs
can be contrived from reconstituting nut-vit slime (the
building blocks of human dietary requirements) into
liquid and solid food. One of the constituents of nut-
vit is the radiation-resistant, GM plant munce, grown
intensively in Cursed Earth aquaponic farms. A market
also exists for non-GM and exotic, non-terrestrial foods,
supplied by foreign import from global trading partners
and space farms. Pro-slab (concentrated bisoon meat)
is processed in huge Cursed Earth farms, a joint venture
between Mega-City One and Texas City.
Defence - A relatively small percentage of Mega-City
One citizens carry firearms licenses, but they are a suffi-
cient number to sustain a healthy import/export weapons
industry. The Justice Department relies on private contrac-
tors to fill its armouries and those of Citidef squads.

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(made from reconstituted sewage) is but the latest genera- of bank accounts and offering loans to private individuals,
tion of decades of highly-efficient recycling technologies. business and government. All banks are staffed by robot
Electronics, clothing, heavy construction materials (rock- clerks and bank managers. Recognising the transient na-
crete, glasseen, plasteen), vehicle bodies and weaponry ture of the hectic Mega-City life, robot mo-banks pursue
are collected and turned over to mega-waste disposal their clientele along the city streets and roads, recharg-
plants, broken down into separate chemicals and then ing paycards and processing loan and account requests
redistributed to city industry. Dead citizens are not im- at the touch of a button. Mo-banks are attractive targets
mune to this process, for they are dismembered in Resyk for heisters and have been designed to resist such attacks
plants and reformed as basic chemical sludge for use in thanks to an armoured body shell, stun beams and cling
the cosmetics and preservatives industries. net casters.
Banking insitutions to have appeared in the Judge
Dredd comic strip include Bundys Bank, the First Mega-
Tertiary Bank, the Mega-City Cred-Bank and the Mega-City Savings
Entertainment - The worlds largest recreational in- & Loan Bank.
dustry is to be found in Mega-City One. Astronomical rates
of human unemployment caused by far less expensive
and more efficient robot labour alternatives contribute to
chronic frustration, aggression and self-loathing among
the citizens. Mega-City Ones leisure industry is extremely
well-developed, offering consumers thousands of tri-D
channels, multimedia entertainment packages and more
physical pastime alternatives like long-term hobbies and
team sports to help foster more friendly social relation-
ships. The Mega-City One entertainment business has
become a brand name in itself and successfully exports
its products across the world.
Research & Development - The greatest advances
in scientific advancement come in times of crisis, and
Mega-City One has seen more than its fair share of threats.
Driven by the Justice Departments urge to prevent the
same disasters from afflicting the city and to resolve
ongoing consequences of past trauma, Mega-City Ones
Research and development corporations enjoy high levels
of government sponsorship and a minimum of restrictions
placed on avenues of experimental research. Mega-City
One R&D industries excel in the cutting edge exploration
of defensive armaments (laser defence, counterterrorism
technologies), dimensional and temporal studies (for
possible commercial exploitation), genetic engineering
and alternative energy applications.

CURRENCY & BANKING BUSINESS DIRECTORY

The main form of currency in Mega-City one is the credit,
which replaced the Dollar in the early-21st century. The
credit was first circulated in coin and paper note formats
(1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 and 1,000c denominations),
but later was upgraded to a largely electronic medium.
Paycards are plasteen, credit card-sized wafers that store
a fixed credit value until some or all the paycards value
is deposited through an exchange box into anothers
account. Credit can be added to the paycards balance
just as easily. Note that paycards are not designed - nor
recommended - to be the sole repository of a citizens
entire bank account(s), merely a means of conveying
partial amounts from that account to conduct street
transactions. Alternatively, bank account details can be
provided to business partners so they can transact with
the bank personally. The Mega-City One banking system
is very much like the banks of our time, hosting millions
The following is a sampling of businesses to have ap-
peared in the Judge Dredd comic strip:
Arms Merchants
Colt - The oldest firearms arms manufacturer in North
America.
General Arms - Firearms and light-to-medium artil-
lery manufacturer.
Hondai - Hondo City weapons technologists with of-
fices in MegNorth offering state-of-the-art (and hugely
expensive) firearms; custom design orders accepted.
KillCo - Outlawed arms dealer importing illegal weap-
onry from arms factories beyond Mega-City Ones
jurisdiction. Not surprisingly, KillCo does not have
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Mauley - Supplies weapons to Judges and citizens,
helping fan the flames of many a block war.
Tac-Systems - Heavy weapons specialist.
Walther Mitsubushi - German-Hondo federation sell-
ing high-precision, value-added armaments.
Transportation
Alienline - Taxi firm founded and staffed exclusively
by extraterrestrials. Headquarters based in Alien
Town.
Armoured Truck Company - Manufacturers of heavy-
duty industrial vehicles for road and off-road usage;
owns a private testing range in the Cursed Earth.
Bad Company - Rugged combat vehicles for the pri-
vate market.
Classic Carriages - Replica antique ground and air-
craft built to customer specifications. Pollution laws
require that any classic vehicle intended for road use
must have the original engines upgraded to accept
synthoil or fuel cell-compatible systems.
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Digby Motors - Quality Brit-Cit ground and hover ve-
hicle manufacturer. Principle Mega-City One market:
middle-aged citizens and Brithusiasts.
Foord - Mega-City Ones largest homegrown car
manufacturer, dealing in reasonably-priced ground
and hovercars.
Freeway - Pan-African hovership manufacturer; cen-
tral office in MegCentral.
General Hovers - Hover vehicle offshoot of the old
General Motors corporation.
General Slabsters - Descendent of the old General
Motors corporation.
Harley Farley - State-of-the-art slab-bike manufac-
turer based in Texas City.
Hensi Corporation - Hondo City manufacturer; sells
mid-range ground and hover vehicles to the Mega-City
One market.
Holy Roller - Vatican City enterprise; extravagant
ground and hover vehicles.
Hoverbeam - Sports hover vehicle manufacturer.
Hoveryellow - Hovertaxi firm.
Inter-Space Corp - Deep-space hauliers. Owns private
spaceport complex in MegCentral.
JCD - Plant hire and manufacture.
Marple Spaceways - Space condominium manufac-
turer; central office in MegSouth.
Mopad Club - Accident & repair mopad insurers.
Mercury - Mid-to-heavy goods transporters.
Nijinski Trucking - Haulage company.
Oostin - Modestly-priced groundcars.
Ped-Power - Pedway vehicle manufacturer (zoots-
coots, block buggies, etc).
Road Baron - Ruhr Conurb vehicle manufacturer;
central office in MegSouth.
Roadliners, Inc. - People mover and midi-haulage
firm. Has contract to run sections of the Mega-City
One ground bus network.
Secur-O-Pod, Inc. - Supplies armoured vehicles to
financial institutions and the Justice Department.
Shaddilac - High quality vehicles for biz-cit market.
Stutz - De luxe groundcars and hover-convertibles.
Transpan - Intercontinental hovership fleet.
Energy
Apollo-Goldstar - Solar power provider.
Meg-Oil - Synthoil manufacturer and distributor.
Central offices in MegSouth.
Nukco - Provider of nuclear power.
Power Company - Owner of the Power Towers.
Wiffin Gas - Mothane gas refineries, with a contract
to vent methane gas from the Mega-City One sewer
system.
 Food & Drink
Amalgamated Munce, Inc. - Largest munce producer
in Mega-City One.
Chuck Chicken - Junk food giant, owner of the Mc-
Duck and Pizza Hovel fast food franchises.
Garbo Edibles - Biothetic food producer.
Mega-Vit Synthi-Foods - Artificial vegetable (green-
ish) and fruit manufacturer.
Pireli Plankton, Inc. - Harvests mutant Blue Pacific
plankton in sea-farms for the North and Cent-Am
markets.
Sunshine Synthifoods - The citys most popular
breakfast cereal manufacturer.
Trimcit - Slimming aid manufacturer.
United Munce - Owns half of the munce aquaponic
farms in the Cursed Earth, supplying to Amalgamated
Munce.
Manufacturing
Agg-Bio - Provides zombies (human simulacrams)
with marginal intellect for purposes of commercial
product experimentation.
Blaxochem - Pharmaceuticals.
Commode - Static and portable computer systems.
Cybo-Comp - The citys oldest robot manufacturer, its
motto: For Robots Of Distinction.
Cyclon Metalworks - Ore refinery & recon plants.
Dot Com - Micro-electronics.
Global Dynamics Corp - Texas City robotics; branch
office in MegSouth.
Hondai Corporation - Hondo robotics, branch of-
fices in MegWest. State-of-the-art full-steel or cyborg
systems catering for civilian and military contracts
(subject to Justice Department approval).
Jonson - Servodroids.
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Mega-Tinto Mining Company - Outer space mineral
extraction.
Moderna Robots - Robots for domestic, office and
light industry.
NERDCO - Cutting edge technologies; brainchild of
Bill Nerd.
Noxem Chemicals - Industrial compounds.
Plastoid Industries - Largest plasteen producer.
Precision Robotex - High-quality Swiss robotics,
catering to the lucrative Hightown market.
Riochem - Front company for Justice Department
mass tranquillisation program.
Serve-U-Well - Domodroids.
Singer - Servodroids.
StigCorp - Heavy construction.
Sump Labs - Nutrition and cosmetics.
Sweetair Ventilation Co. - Air conditioning.
Tekbot - Heavy industrial robots.
Unidroid - Servodroids and light industrial robots.
Multimedia
Big-1 Publishing - Mass market trash-zines.
Mega-Media, Inc. - Largest multimedia publisher.
Sprintprint - Copyshop franchise.
Private Services
Bodybank - Purchases fresh cadavers from the con-
senting bereft, selling to wealthy clients who wish to
transplant their minds into more attractive/younger/
healthier bodies.
Garbo Bodywarp Salon - Total cosmetic surgery.
Holiday Macabre - Travel agents arranging distasteful
or dangerous vacations for thrillseekers.
Inter-Time - Time travel technologists responsible for
the first localised time warp units; all operations are
closely monitored by the Justice Department.
Mega-City Bullion - Protects and transports Mega-City
Ones gold reserves.
Mega-Guard - Insurance company.
New-U-Face Parlour - Face-change surgery.
Retail
Born To Surf - Skysurf specialist selling powerboards,
related clothing and equipment.
Emphatically Yess - Trouser specialist; exclusive con-
tract to supply bodysuits to the Justice Department.
Kneepad Crazee - Kneepad specialists.
Miz-Meg, Gitt, Pedco - Fashion house, designer cloth-
ing and footwear labels.
Mega-City Stores - Lowtown shopplex chain.
Megalot Ltd. - Administrates the Megalot.
 Mosgrove & Thung - Dominant shopplex chain.
Robok - Juve clothing fashions.
Universal Armpit - Hygienic clothing, including the
best-selling 24-hour crotch and armpit liner.
Universal Kneepad Corporation - Giant of the knee-
pad craze, later to expand into the butt- and facepad
markets.
BUSINESS LOCATIONS
Dust-Zone
The heavily-industrialised areas (dust zones) of Mega-
City One are a vision of Hell to many citizens and so
are contained mainly within the sparsely-populated
factory-belts of MegSouth. With most of the citys manu-
facturing base operated by robots, human aesthetics are
not a design issue and so optimum productivity can be
Business Glossary
A guide to twenty-second century terminology relat-
ing to commonly-encountered high-slab businesses.
Note that not all Mega-City One businesses have
a an alternate name; many retain traditional titles
(barbershop, garage, grocery store, hardware shop,
solicitors for example).
Biz-Cit - Businessperson.
Biz-Dis - Business District.
Burgostop - Aircon fast food restaurant.
Con-Store - Convenience store.
Drop-out - Snack bar & juve hang-out.
Dust-Zone - Industrial Zone.
Eaterie - Restaurant.
Ecom-Unit - Single industrial storage unit. Some-
times an entire warehouse may be referred to as
an ecom unit.
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obtained from every square metre of available space.
One the outside, the factory blocks of the dust zones are
huge, intimidating grey boxes, their sheer faces broken
by exhaust ports, cranes, ever-busy ground truck loading
docks and hoverpads in the upper levels. The labour ro-
bots of the factory blocks are efficiently designed, with no
extraneous weight, appendage or feature to impair their
functionality. Once completed, the finished products are
safety-checked, before being packaged and sent along one
of many dozens of conveyor belts to waiting trucks and
hoverships and delivered to customers. Factory blocks are
extremely noisy, hot and very dangerous for any human
to attempt to traverse without clear direction. Heavy
metal manipulator arms, las-welders, cutters, molten
metal and plasteen crucibles, snaking hydraulic cables
and moving floor plates will all do serious - if not lethal
- injury to those who do not pay attention. On occasion,
slabpackers have broken into factory blocks in search of
warm lodgings for the night, only to become part of the
Factory Block - Fully-automated manufacturing
plant.
Fash-Up - Clothes retailer.
Fish & Chipperie - Brit-Cit delicacy takeaway.
Freezy Whip Parlour - Ice cream vendor.
Mek-Mart - Robot showroom.
Shopplex - Large shopping complex, also known
as a shoppera.
Slugshop - Book store.
Slug-Vendor - Newsagents.
Snackerie - Snack bar, also known as a snaketto.
Sume - Consumer; business customer.
Ro-Biz - Robot business unit.
Teksmith - Personal technologies repair shop; the
22nd century locksmith.
end product, grabbed by a robot arm and pushed into a
plasteen mould, pulped to death.
Ecom Unit
The post-atomic warehouse districts of Mega-City one
are long-established, former no-go or prohib zones oc-
cupying swathes of City Bottom. The zones are licensed
without charge to businesses on the condition they first
clean up the debris and unexploded warheads left over
from past conflicts. These plots of land have no value to
the Housing Department as they are often contaminated
with radiation and/or seeping chemical pollutants, but
are ideal for the storage of inorganic industrial goods.
The reclam district warehouses have many owners, often
mildly ambitious biz-cits out to make a modest, easy liv-
ing from renting their ecom units out to other businesses
and private individuals (one of the biggest names in ecom
unit rental is Besmartco, run by slummy entrepreneur
Sidney Ransid). There are no uniform standards to ecom
unit design; some are constructed cheaply from salvaged
brick and reconstituted concrete, while others are made
from more sturdy rockcrete or plasteen - unit size depends
entirely on the whims of the warehouse owner. Average
ecom unit dimensions are 20x20 feet, 10 feet high, used
as small business units and civilian furniture storage. Like
cityblock apartment modules, ecom units can be linked
and their partition walls removed to generate a larger
volume. Most small warehouse owners live on-site, at-
tending personally to their customers needs. Ecom-chain
owners like Sidney Ransid have earned enough credits
to live in mid-range lux-apts, entrusting the day-to-day
administration of their properties to robot gaffers, or
trusted friends and family. Anybody with good social and
financial credentials can rent ecom unit space for any rea-
son within legality (officially); the criminal underworld
makes extensive use of the more remote warehouses to
conduct secret meetings, organise games of chance, or
to lure enemies to remote deaths.
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Food & Drink
Most of Mega-City Ones foodstuff is synthetic, necessi-
tated by an absence of fertile soil and cropland. Advances
in genetically-modified nutrition and molecular recon-
stitution has led to the easy manufacture of synthetic
foods and drinks that can look exactly like their organic
predecessors, or be moulded into original foodstuffs. In
the early decades of the GM movement, governments at-
tempted to eradicate high-fat and sugar foods, but after
realising that a snack-starved population would see them
out of power, the plans were eventually abandoned.
Here are some of the many food and drinks that have
featured in the Judge Dredd comic strip:
Food - Bacteria Soup, Bleenies, Chippies, Chunkies,
Dunkies, Foodle-Noodle, Grool, Grot-Pot (bavarian brat-
wurst, french fry, grots of the globe, rat madras, tibetan
yak, trade polish potato), Hagburgers, Hagdogs, Hagfries,
Hotties (eltzweltz, sticky toffee), Koko Candy, Krispy Slug
Flake, Krispy Snake Rings, Meatish Pie, Mockburgers, Mock-
chok (chewbars, chok-bar, chunx, dainties, dollys mixtures,
krunchblox), Mock-Dog, Moonz Boonz, Munceburgers,
Munce Gum, Non-Meatish Pie, Okeydogs, Ratburgers,
Synthi-Choc (munce & onion flavour), Synthi-Flakes.
Drink - Bananarak, Bileshake, Doomlager, Dweebo,
Fursters, Good Luck Beer, Grud Beer, Munska, No-Caf, Old
Spleen, Pigweiser, Shampaine, Soy Cola, Synthski, Synthi-
Caf.
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SHOCK
EVENTS Justice For All! Crime Must Fall! The march is not exactly
a crowd pleaser, with most visitors only lining the slabs
Mega-City One hosts regular festivals and public events to to be visibly seen to support the Justice Department. The
bring the citizens closer together... watched carefully by march is a regular target for gangs of thugs who pelt the
the Justice Department, of course. On the surface, most Born-Again Lawful with rotten munce and bottles.
of these events are quite harmless if boisterous, but the
criminal element is always present: tap gangs and dunks
hunt for easy pickings, blitzes are executed, and contra-
Justice Day Parade
band passes from dealer to addict, cloaked by the hustle The Justice Department is honoured once a year with a
and bustle of the crowds. Most major public events are parade that travels through Sector 44. Row after row of
broadcast on tri-D pay-per-view channels. Judges ride highly-polished Lawmasters, drive Pat-Wag-
ons and Manta prowl tanks while H-Wagons soar over-
head in formation. The latest technologies in the Judges
Apocalypse Day Parade endless fight against crime are often previewed to the
The Apocalypse War of 2104 destroyed
half of Mega-City One. A special day of
remembrance exists to honour the dead,
the missing and the Judges who sacrificed
themselves to defend the city from the
East-Meg One invaders. The largest official
parade is held in Sector 44, while smaller
contributions are organised privately
across all regions. Decorated floats and
dramatic reinactments move slowly along
the slabs, accompanied by demonstrations
by pro- and anti-war groups including
the Rad-Fellows Society, Victims Of The
Apocalypse, Pro-Nuke Alliance and the
Daughters Of The Apocalypse.

The Born-Again
Lawful March
A group of reformed offenders who parade
their enlightenment before the masses, as
approved by the Chief Judge. The Born-
Again Lawful (BAL) present their crimes
for all to see, written on plaques mounted
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masses for the first time at the Justice Day Parade, sure
to deter many would-be criminals. The parade ends in
front of the Grand Hall of Justice where the Chief Judge
gives a traditional speech.
Mega-City 5000
Gangs of rival slab-bikers take to the roads of Mega-City
One, their object to be the first to span the length of the
megalopolis, evading the Judges and smashing the oppo-
sition off the road. The biker gangs have no interest in the
safety of innocent citizens and will happily run any down
who obstruct their path. The most infamous Mega-City
5000 was held in 2099, resulting in a record number of
civilian fatalities. The Judges brought the race to a violent
end, but interest remains strong among the outlaw slab-
biker community in staging future competitions, whether
it be in Mega-City One, or along the abandoned highways
of the Cursed Earth.
Megathon
The annual cross-city marathon Megathon regularly at-
tracts over eight million participants despite a guarantee
of severe limb injuries and Vibe Bowl-sized blisters. The
Megathon has its own tri-D channel Along-the-Thon of-
fering live, 24-hour a day coverage, and a whole micro-
industry supporting the joggers, offering liquid nourish-
ment and mo-tels for flagging participants. Auto-medics
follow the Megathon, ready to speed injured runners to
the nearest hospital block.
Mega-Vision Song Contest
The best of Mega-City Ones musical talent as voted by
the citizens sing-to-win before a packed Vibe Bowl, and
broadcast live on tri-D. There is no type of music that
cannot be considered for entry into the contest (pro-de-
mocracy protest songs excepted) and no age limits, so the
audience can expect to listen to eldsters crooning along-
side pug-rock, pap, hov-garage, zzip house and Cursed
Earth folk acts. The audience votes for each act by enter-
ing their selection into their Vibe Bowl or tri-D remote
controls. The winner receives an exclusive slug-deal with
a major slug-label and a guaranteed world tour.
Mister & Miss Robo-World
Another of Mega-City Ones bizarre beauty pageants,
Mister & Miss Robo-World celebrates the perfect union
of cybernetics and human aesthetics as epitomised by
android simulacra, robots designed to resemble human
beings. 22nd century cybernetics are so advanced that it
is virtually impossible to tell a human and simulacram
apart without looking beneath their skins. Androids are
often designed to appeal to the human ideology of beauty
and the models entered in Mister & Miss Robo-World are
not only the most attractive androids ever conceived,
but also considered the ultimate Homo Sensual. The
androids that enter the contest have their own fan clubs
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despite their being nothing but metal and circuit shells
with preprogrammed personality matrices. A look on
the Megaweb reveals hundreds of cy-hrines dedicated
to one or more simulacram models, filled with images,
design specifications and accounts from nerdy cyberks
who have met a simulacram in person.
Judgement Day of Remembrance
The necromancer Sabbats campaign of genocide against
the citizens of the Earth resulted in untold millions of
deaths. The images of endless legions of zombies lurch-
ing through the streets of Mega-City One, tearing citizens
apart wherever they fell into undead hands, left a deep
mental scar upon the city. The Judgement Day of Remem-
brance commemorates the World Judges victory over
Sabbat, in particular the role played by Mega-City Ones
Justice Department which lost thousands of fine men
and women defending the city wall against the zombie
incursion. Much of Remembrance Day is given over to
solemn tri-D broadcasts and speeches from respected
Mega-City One officials and celebrities; the rest sees the
city explode into carnival chaos and endless reruns of
old and new zombie flicks on the multimedia networks,
while fashion competitions are held to find the citys
Best-Decayed Zombie. Psi-Division all the while maintains
a vigilant watch over the proceedings, aware that some
crazed citizens - necromantic cults or bonafide sorcerers
- are lurking in the wings to try to exploit the spiritual
power inherent in Remembrance Day and resurrect some
real-life zombies of their own...
New Year Chub-Up
New Years Day is still celebrated across the world and
Mega-City One hosts a party that matches its size with
exuberance. The Justice Department grants licenses al-
lowing all bars and eateries to remain open through the
night, seeing in the new year with the booming, synthe-
sised chimes from Times2, all-night festivals held by the
citys premier entertainment landmarks and a dazzling
laser-light show over the Statue of Judgement joined by
a parallel ceremony held on Luna-1, clearly visible from
Earth.
Pro-Democracy Rallies
Following the Great Referendum of 2113 which saw the
citizens vote the Justice Department back into power, the
pro-democracy movements lost much of their momentum.
Even so, ongoing concerns about the Justice Departments
treatment of Mega-City citizens is sufficient to energize
the occasional protest march. Regular attendants include
the remnants of the Democratic Charter Group, the
Democratic Coalition, Freedom League and the Sons of
the Constitution. The rallies that once attracted millions
of angry citizens now fail to exceed the average popula-
tion of a cityblock, but the rally organisers remain ever
committed to their cause... its not as though they have
anything better to do with their time.
 Sports Competitions
This section examines the
legal sports of Mega-City
One.
Aeroball - One of
Mega-City Ones most popu-
lar sports, Aeroball has ex-
isted in an almost unchanged
state since its creation in
the early 21st century. Two
teams of players equipped
with jetpacks compete for
possession of a plasteen ball
in a game best described as a
combination of football, box-
ing, kung-fu and basketball.
The aim of Aeroball is to
score air-strikes by placing
Robot of the Year Show the ball into elevated score-tanks; the team that makes the
most strikes wins the game. Mega-City One has several,
The ever-abundant robots of Mega-City One have their full-sized Aeroball stadiums, while many cityblocks have
own event, a showcase for manufacturers to show off their own, smaller versions where Aeroball champion
the latest models and secure mass production deals with wannabees play in a scaled-down version of the game
customers who have travelled from around the world to known sometimes as Jetball.
sell their own units, admire the glistening mekanoids, All-In-Sumo - Washed-up flab-sport contestants were
or try to steal corporate secrets from competitors. The offered a chance to repair their damaged credibility by
Robot of the Year Show has been heavily-policed by the wrestling each other in the ancient and noble art of Sumo,
Judges in the wake of two robot wars and spikes of public a popular Hondo City import. In a crowded Basho, two
opposition to these mechanical marvels. Protest groups fatties slap and grapple one another to force their oppo-
like the Working Men campaign to have robots replaced nent outside a large ring drawn on the match floor - the
with human labour, while extremist neo-luddite cells plan victor is he who remains within the ring. All-In-Sumo
bombing raids over factory blocks and develop computer also attracts overseas contenders from legendary Sumo
viruses designed to permanently disable robots. The Robot breeding grounds like Hawaii, Kiwi-Cit and Hondo City,
of the Year Show is a target they cannot ignore. eager to prove themselves against the Mega-City One
newcomers.
Simp Pride March
The citys silliest citizens
celebrate their diversity
by marching in amusing
costume and trumpeting
their idiosyncrasies to any
who can tolerate them. The
Simp Pride March has been
a staple of city culture since
2119 and is a harmless,
jovial and congenial affair,
but not all bystanders find
it amusing, particularly the
Norm Pride, yet another
strait-lace mob which finds
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 American Football - The great game of American
football has survived into the 22nd century, but not
without some modifications. Under the Bionic Limitation
Code, 25-percent of all players bodies must be bionic.
This change has made the game more dangerous, add-
ing a touch of red spice that has helped reverse declin-
ing audience attendance figures. The rules of American
football are otherwise unchanged, with two teams of
players seeking to take possession of the ball and score
touchdowns in the oppositions end zone. The players
bionics make for a faster-paced game, more broken limbs
and fountains of blood, much to the audiences howls of
delight. American football is regulated by the Mega-City
Football League (MFL), which hosts the annual Superbowl
competition at the Crater Bowl.
Blockleaping - The objective of blockleaping contests
is obvious: to leap the distance between two neighbouring
cityblocks. The sport is a simple one, but attracts a good
audience turnout from the blocks involved and draws
the local biz-cits onto the tweenblock plaza to sell their
wares from temporary stalls. As very few cityblocks are
actually close enough in proximity for a human to leap
between without certain death, special Boing-boots are
used to increase his momentum. Should the blockleaper
fail to make the crossing, catch nets will break his fall.
Blockleaping attracts hundreds dozens of contestants, all
having been declared residents of the competing blocks
for at least twelve months. Even this simple sport has
seen a measure of scandal, with unscrupulous blockers
smuggling mutants with superhuman leaping capabilities
or powers of flight into the city to take part.
Blockleaping later diversified into the team sport Bo-
ingbowl (imagine Aeroball propelled by bounce instead
of jetpacks).
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Block-Out - This relatively new sport, only two dec-
ades old, has caused controversy during every champion-
ship due to the violence that invariably erupts between the
two cityblock teams taking part. In the game of Block-Out,
two teams of panellists answer questions; correct answers
allow their teams of pigs and wallies to move across a
large gameboard ever nearer to the opposing panellists
box. Pigs try to knock the wallies out of the game by
jumping on them. Wallies who get close enough to the
opposition box try to leap into it by using a springboard
or an extremely-powerful pneumatic howitzer. If the wally
succeeds in climbing into the box, he can eliminate any
one panellist by throwing him over the boxs side into a
catch net, removing the panellist for the games duration.
The object of Block-Out is to remove all the opposition
panel, winning the match. Pigs can attempt to reach the
box, but can only use the pneumatic howitzer, a very tricky
prospect that sees many pigs fly far over the heads of the
panel. The winning team takes home the esteemed Crater
Bowl Trophy, named after the former rad-pit crater the
stadium was built within.
Flab-Sports - The phenomenon of the fatty - a citizen
who has eaten himself into hyper-obesity and managed
not to die of heart failure - is celebrated by the flab-sport
community, where fatties are sponsored by big business
to eat their stomachs off, the heaviest fatty standing
to win millions of credits in prizes in the Heavyweight
Eating Championship of the World contest, held at the
Chow Dome. Following the food shortages caused by the
Apocalypse War, the fatty was made a social pariah and
the grunt and guzzle game outlawed, but the law has
since been repealed and flab-sports once more thrive.
Another major flab-contest is the Intercity Eating Cham-
pionship between Mega-City One and Texas City. Aside
from the mega-credit spectacles, flab-sports are pursued
by lots of smaller eating contests around Mega-City One,
the summit of which is the Fattie Of The Year contest and
the title of Mega-Fats.
Pinboing - The popularity of the Boinging hobby
prompted further exploitation of the miracle plastics
commercial potential, and the sport of Pinboing was born.
Taking place in huge Boingaramas, Pinboing matches are
bizarre and thrilling spectacles. Contestants are encased
in a Boing bubble and fired into a vastly oversized replica
of an old pinball machine. Like the pinball players, the
pinboinger must steer the pinball (himself) into a series
of bumpers, trying to strike the bumpers with the highest
scores, hoping to emerge as Pinboing Wizard.
Shuggy - A strange hybrid of the table sports of
Snooker, Billiards and Pool. Shuggy is a game played on
an oblong table with twenty-four hills topped by holes
into which the shugster must pot all the balls. Shuggy is
a difficult game to master and has inspired an armoury of
trick shots - the leapfrog, sidewinder, frisbee flip, triple
liquidator and the infamous booglariser (potting four
or more balls consecutively into different holes). Shuggy
halls are often frequented by the citys coolest movers and
shakers, making and breaking business deals - legal and
illicit - over the table.
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Target Ball - Tennis with added interest, Target Ball
has two contestant try to hit the ball past their opponent
so that he cannot return, striking one of a moving row
of target boards, each with differing scores. The highest
scoring player wins the match, the best of eight games
to make a set.
Weirdy of the Year
An anti-beauty contest, the Weirdy of the Year contest
showcases the most bizarre, cosmetically-altered Mega-
City One citizens, pitting the extent of their self-inflicted
deformities against each other for big prizes and the
coveted Weirdy of the Year crown and sash. The weirdies
qualities are measured against audience votes as indicated
on the Weirdometer: (1) wee bit weird, (2) pretty weird, (3)
genuine weirdy, (4) very, very weird (5) lock this one up!
The contest draws huge tri-D audiences and the inevitable
opposition groups, notably the Normal Fringe led by Adolf
Soso which attempted to murder all the contestants of a
weirdy contest some years ago, drawing unprecedented
viewing figures and advertising revenue for the contests
extremely-pleased broadcaster.
MULTIMEDIA
The technologies of the 22nd century allow for unprec-
edented data flow. Mega-City Ones primary information
sources are distributed through the medium of tri-D
(three-dimensional image and spacial sound), viewed
from a vid-screen terminal. All tri-D data is stored elec-
tronically on holographic slugs (memory chips) offering a
staggering memory storage capacity. Tri-D programming,
music, computer and educational programs are all format-
ted as slugs (com-slugs and vid-slugs, as examples), be
slotted into a slug-reader for instant access.
The rest of this entry provides a sample of the various
multimedia programming widely available to the citizens
of Mega-City One:
Vid-Shows
Annual Address of the Chief Judge to the Citizens
- A review of the Justice Departments successes over
the past twelve months and notice of new, modified
or repealed laws soon to come into force. The Annual
Address is compulsory viewing for all citizens.
Channel 99 - Tri-D station offering the citys widest
variety of commercial programming. Its motto: City-
wide With Pride!
Chumps Get Lucky - Top-rated daytime family-team
quiz show hosted by Nicky Parsnips.
Crime Call - Judges make on-screen arrests following
tip-offs provided by viewers. Hosted by Cliff Stan and
crime scene reporter Fran Kubbel.
Crimesapopping - Citizens report crimes to a panel
of robot Judge heads.
 The Density Factor - Quiz show for idiots hosted by
Jazzy Johnny Spangle.
Dodge the Issue - Channel 001 investigative pro-
gramme hosted by roving reporter Eldon Dodge.
Early Late Horrow Show - Horror tri-D showcase.
Face the Judge - Studio audience questions a guest
Judge.
Heartline - A panel of counsellors advise simple-
minded citizens.
Just Plain Stupid - Celebrating citizens stupidity.
Hosted by Bryce Forsopp.
The Marriage Game - A Lovecom Production. Hosted
by Wanda Hump, three contestants are asked romantic
questions by a mystery contestant in search of love.
The winning couple are married at the end of the
show by a celebrity priest.
Megalot - The citys only legal lottery. After violence
broke out following a record roll-over win, the Justice
Department exercised the Security of the City Act, di-
recting all future winnings into the Accounts Division.
Mega-Wide - Chat show hosted by the venerable Frank
Brash, most famous for being arrested by guest Judge
Dredd in 2104 on live tri-D.
News-Meg - In-depth look at the days news hosted
by Jimima Faxman.
Pits of the World - Documentary exploring the worlds
dangerous dives and sleaze hotspots.
Playaday - Young juves show.
Radio Radio Radio - Radio music channel hosted by
Cool Johnny Cool.
Rich Creeps - Soap opera set in Hightown.
Street Beat - Lowbrow meet the people show.
This is your Death - Psychics try to predict the time
of vid-callers deaths.
Tipsters Tonite - Sports show offering celebrity com-
mentaries on possible winners and losers of future
sports competitions. Hosted by the eldsters favourite,
Silky Dick Dilliker.
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Vid-Mark - Hab-shopping channel.
Violence Channel - Adults-only Hi-Vi; approved by
the Justice Departments Media Division.
Whats Noo? - Showcasing new inventions, fashions
and oddities.
Who Gives a Damn What You Think? - Obnoxious
vid-phone-in hosted by shock-jock Wowie Hark.
Youve Been Fingered - Viewers inform on their
neighbours for big prizes.
Vid-Zines
Abnormality Weekly - Essential reading for weirdies
and social outcasts.
Alien Life - Magazine catering to the citys extrater-
restrial community.
City Life - News, business and entertainment.
Eldzines - Nostalgia-themed periodical for OACs with
additional articles relating to eld-shelt life.
Homes & Humes - Walkthroughs of the citys more
attractive properties and interviews with their owners,
with tips on hab-improvement.
Mega-Digest - Dozens of condensed articles on topics
of possible interest to lazy readers.
Megapolitan - Lightweight broadslug.
Mega-Times - The most widely-read newszine.
New Mutation - Articles on mutant segregation issues
and Cursed Earth life from a mutants perspective.
Mega-City Standard, Morning Newsfax, Newsmeg
- News, showbusiness, business & sport broadslugs.
Prohibited Vid-Zines - A small underground market
thrives, featuring depictions of real physical violence,
torture and murder. Examples include: 101 Actual
Killings, Guts and Garters, How to Dismember a Close
Friend, The Pancreas of Pauline, Sappy Valley Massacre,
Torture Magazine and Torture the Alien Way. Others,
like Total Justice, support the lingering pro-democracy
subversive movements.