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Megacities in the ''Judge Dredd'' comics are a fictional exaggeration of the real megacity concept: instead of just being a large conurbation, they cover most of their original country and have replaced nations as the dominant political entity. The most commonly seen megacity is Mega-City One. In the strip, these cities are all that remains of their original countries after the Atomic Wars of 2070, and are mostly dictatorships run by the Judges. The exact number, location, nature, and even name of megacities is dependent on the writer of any given ''Dredd'' strip. For the ''Shamballa'' strip in prog 701, Alan Grant told artist Arthur Ranson that he could make up a number of cities and features for a map: he told Ranson “probably nobody will ever bother with it again”.〔(2000 AD Thrill Cast: 18 March 2015, 32:12 to 33:37 )〕 ==Concept== The first mention of other megacities came in ''Robot Wars'', with a Texas City Oil freighter.〔Prog 17〕 This was followed by ''Luna 1'', when Dredd was appointed Judge-Marshall of the Luna-1 colony, with his order calling it a colony of "the United Cities of North America"; the narration referred to three separate cities, in existence from 2061.〔2000 AD prog 42〕 The next issue would mention Texas City as one of these cities, and ''The First Luna Olympics'' would introduce "the Sov-Cities" and "Brit-Territories".〔prog 50〕 These early strips also referred to nations, but as the strip went on it would be megacities that would be the dominant concept. ''Luna 1'' also showed a modified US flag – three stars instead of 50 – and mentioned the "United Cities of North America" under a body called the Triumverate. The start of ''The Cursed Earth''〔Prog 61〕 would then show Mega-City One and Two as autonomous and prog 128 would refer to the Soviet East-Meg One as an independent entity. This would be the default from then on. In ''Dredd'' backstory, the megacities formed out of growing urbanisation and reached crisis point in 2027, forcing the United States to impose an "instant justice" form of law enforcement.〔''Origins'', prog 1510〕 This was widely copied by the foreign megacities,〔''Origins'', prog 1515〕 which included the Union of Soviet Mega-Cities, the European City-States, Brit-Cit, and the Sino Block by 2070.〔''Origins'', prog 1516〕 During the run of ''Dredd'', eight cities have been destroyed. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Megacities in Judge Dredd」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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