Current Population of Mega City One...?

[mogzilla]

"it's not my fault"


best four year old voice"but he started it!"

[scutfink]

Jesus! Five pages and nobody's thought to take the inhabitants of the Undercity into account. What's wrong with you people?

The undercity, was concreted over, the clue's in the name, therefore it lies outside the borders of the city so none of it's inhabitants can count towards the Megs population, obviously.

(I'm starting to enjoy this now, is that wrong?)

[vzzbux]

HEH. this thread is dynamite.

What about extra entities like the 2 gods hovering over the city granting citizens godly powers for bets.




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[House of Usher]

Well, that brings the population up to 400 million and 2 then.

[Funt Solo]

Where does the figure of 50,000 per block come from?

[W. R. Logan]

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[Dudley]

The undercity, was concreted over, the clue's in the name, therefore it lies outside the borders of the city so none of it's inhabitants can count towards the Megs population, obviously

By that rationale, you wouldn't count the favelas of Rio or the shanty towns of Soweto - a somewhat politically dubious approach, don't you think?

[Roger Godpleton]

Presumably anyone who gets lost down there is Persona non grata as it would be too much of a hassle to look down there. Maybe once a month they give some of the rookies a mobile with a torch and tell them to wander around for half an hour to see if anything shows up.

[House of Usher]

a somewhat politically dubious approach, don't you think?

A somewhat priggish reply, don't you think?

[scutfink]

Now, maybe I'm a little out of touch, but I dont recall there being a Big-ass Concrete wall built by mutant slave labour dotted with hectic gun emplacements between Rio and the favelas (Although it may not be that far off) MC1 has some pretty clearly defined, heavily policed, borders is all I'm saying.

[Dudley]

Don't be a twit, Usher.

[Funt Solo]

I think it's safe to discount the denizens of the undercity as non-citizens, on the basis that we feel like it, and this is all space-maths anyway.

[TordelBack]

Since MC-1 is under Judicial control (with some sops to civic governance, like Mayor Maybe (mmm, feels good typing that!)), we can assume that anywhere that 'retired' (and sometimes disgraced) judges take their Long Walk to is technically outside its borders - and that includes the Undercity.  No-one ever takes the Long Walk to the Sector 23 Rad-Crater.  

[Funt Solo]

It's another interesting point.  There's the whole "bringing law unto the lawless" business, but then there are MC-1 facilities in the Cursed Earth, such as work farms.  Plus, there are circuit Judges (isn't Koburn a sort-of permanent circuit judge?) and those Cursed Earth Rangers that have been fighting the Mutie Army.  Then there are off-world MC-1 concerns.

Still, that's a sort of political population, rather than the population of the city itself.  

Oh - should we be counting any remaining Condo satellites?  

[TordelBack]

Oh - should we be counting any remaining Condo satellites?

Only if they're the type that don't suddenly leap from geostationary orbit right to the effin' Sun in a few minutes because their stabilising thrusters are on the blink - updating the total would be too time-consuming.   Building near-light speed capabilty into orbital correction thrusters is a pretty big design flaw, even leaving aside the shoddy materials...