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My first fandom in a very, very, very long time….

Welcome to Megacity One, population estimated at 400 million. The year is 2140. A quick glance at the map will tell you this is a post apocalyptic world. Earth suffered a nuclear war in 2070. Out of the ashes rise megacities.

Map
judgedredd.wikia.com/wiki/Cursed_Eart…

Megacity Landscape
wolfleben.deviantart.com/art/Dredd-Me…

Additional Source Material (including a Timeline, terminology)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega-City_One#C…



Character Options
There are several options for this roleplay. You may run more than one if you wish, though I am looking for one main. And I want members to be able to roleplay together.

Judge. The most obvious is to be a Judge. I am looking mainly for street judges, but there are actually about 15 different types of judge.

Villains. What use are judges without villains? You are welcome to create disposable villains. But note this in your CS when you make one. 2D cutout villains are just that though. The very brief encounter disposable thugs don’t need a CS. But neither do I want them used as an excuse to abuse judicial power. If you look at the punishments for most crimes, death is very rare. Most deaths occur from resisting arrest.

Civilians. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega-City_One#C…. 98% are unemployed, most illiterate, etc. Only about 2% amount to anything at all. Half of these end up as leaders of villains. The other half put their skills to real use, though they never enjoy the power and wealth of the villains. And only a fraction of those fall into the very useful category. These are scientists and engineers. On the plus side these good citizens don’t have a target on their back. Well, not entirely true. Some end up as victims of villains.

Life of a Judge by the Numbers.
In 2017, the population of the USA was 323 million. It employed over 1.1 million law enforcement employees of which about 75% had arrest powers. That is about 1 law enforcement employee to 300 people.

In 2130 the population of Megacity One was over 400 million.

In 2134 the Chaos Bug killed 350 million citizens and 60% of the judges. The Academy of Law was destroyed, resulting in the deaths of a great many cadets. (Only 600 survived.)

By 2137 the population of Megacity reached 72 million. It will still be many years before the Judges recover their numbers.

In 2138 Megacity 3 (Texas City) attempted a coup against MC 1 that failed.

Back to the number spread. I am going to go with a smaller ratio of Judges to citizens - about 1000 to 1. That would mean about 350,000 judges before the Chaos Bug and an estimated 12,000 cadets. (This assumes a 30 year service period where officers get replaced at 3% per year. Odds are that the number of cadets is too high here, but not an issue as the number that survived is specific.)

After the Chaos Bug we have 72 million people, an estimated 140,000 Judges and 600 cadets. That is a ratio of roughly 500 to one. Better than before, but with the same area to cover, the same problems, few replacements, less support … and a population that is quickly outgrowing your forces.

Roleplay Settings
City Blocks
In the vast urban centres known as the Mega-Cities, citizens live packed together in the close confines of massive super-skyscrapers known City Blocks. The average height of a city block is 400-700 stories, and the average population of a Mega-City One block was 60,000 people. City Blocks are frequently named after famous people or fictional characters, and are often named after 2000 AD creators - one of the blocks in the movie is named after artist Henry Flint. Large blocks can be like their own nations, and tensions and rivalries between neighbouring blocks sometimes escalate into fully fledged conflicts known as Block Wars.

Radlands - still dirty with radiation

Mutant Deserts - off limits to humans (mutagens present)

This list is not complete, but gives a few ideas. It is pretty rare to leave the confines of the megacity though.
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