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::"Not much procreating taking place in the cubes."

400,000,000 cits
100,000 judges

How many in the cubes?

It's more difficult to switch them off in Firefox (and therefore probably Safari, Opera, Konq et al).  IE switches them off itself. It's to do with ... zzzzzz ... (sorry - forgot to leave work at work for a moment there).

Italicsoff?

Italics off?

I suppose knowing Marlon's parents' hobbies is quite sad.  Oh well.

I thought his mum dirtied and washed dishes and his father headed eggs into pans.

::"Just realised that MC-1 must have a population mostly aged under 30."

Why?

We moved on from the population question ages ago - now we're onto how many Judges there might reasonably be.  We've hijacked the thread.

::"Does that figure of 91,500 include all the auxillary staff as well."

Fucked if I know.  All I did was multiply 300 by 305.  Wagner could waltz along in the next prog and say it's 2000, and who would I be to argue?

If we round that up a bit (y'know, because of the Academy of Law, Circuit Judges, Iso-Wardens, that sort of thing) to 100,000 (and ignore the fact that some sectors will be 'dust zones and so on, that would make it 8000 cits per Judge.

In The Pit (prog 970) the full compliment of judges in Sector House 301 is given as 300.

305 sectors (from Bob's Law, prog 355) gives us a (very rough) approximation of 91,500 judges.

Aye - it's not like I hate all his ideas - but they just don't seem real, because you read the weekly and they're having no effect on the rest of the city - even though, often, they're city-shattering events.

I know cross-overs are frowned upon, but does that mean we have to live with ignore-overs instead?

Thanks, Fegbarr - you're quite right - it says "home to 400 million citizens".

Case closed.

I enjoyed it while it lasted.

All I was really saying (in my head, at any rate) is that the figure "400 million" is probably fairly good.

We could argue our way up or down from that by a hundred million or more without having any facts to base our assumptions on, and both still be right, or wrong, and in equal measure.

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Alan Grant is obsessed with city-shattering events that every other Dredd writer completely ignores - the children all getting taken away, the Sisters of Death causing a city-wide plague and mass destruction - and now a whole sector of sentient blocks sitting in the cursed earth being guarded by a Kong robot having driven a path of destruction through the entire city.

I just don't see any of these events as meaning anything - it's like they happen in an alternate Dredd universe.

::"Mega-City One, a megalopolis of over 400 million people across the east coast of the United States, features in the Judge Dredd comic, serialised in 2000 AD."

From "megacity" on wikipedia.

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Assuming a population growth rate of 2%, post-Apocalypse, you've got 400 million, with 8 million being added each year from then until Necropolis.

That's approx. 400 + 64 = 464.

Necropolis then kills off 60 million, so we're back to 400-ish, and assumed growth up to this year would be:

400 + 136 = 536 million

However, as was said, there's Judgement Day - there must have been a high death toll, there - Total War nuked out a few sectors.  Did Sin City's infection spread to the city?  I thought it was contained?  

We're looking for about 100 million deaths to get it to 400, 420.

It might be the last panel of Twilight's Last Gleaming, from prog 756.

IIRC, Dredd is sitting astride his lawmaster, looking out over the city - and that's one of the times he gives his "a city of x million people, each one a potential perp, but grud help me, I love it" speech.

This is a job for Logan & His Magic Scanner.