Pan-Africa (comics) - Mega-Cities and Polities

Mega-Cities and Polities

Two African megacities and two smaller city-states were listed in a world map in Anderson: Shamballa, with more detail listed in the African map in Judge Dredd Megazine.

The known Megacities of Pan-Africa are:

• Simba City: in prog 701 map, placed roughly in Cameroon; in Megazine map, placed in Gabon, incorporating Libreville and spreading into Equatorial Guinea. Stated in map to be outside Pan-African Judge jurisdiction and governing its own affairs, though Simba armed units assisted Pan African forces against the Yoruba gods; Simba City's territory incorporates the former Republic of the Congo. Had hostile relations with Mega-City One after it placed sanctions on Simba City in 2098. Part of the Global Partnership Treaty in the 22nd century, giving it some say over Luna-1, until the treaty was annulled in 2126. Has the Yondo Black Memorial Hoverport
• Luxor (Egypt): reverted back to the ancient Egyptian religion and ruled as a theocracy (as seen in "Book Of The Dead"). Stated in the Africa map to not be part of the Pan African Compromise, and to be also known as "Mega-City Six". Had a cultural exchange with Mega-City One in 2115.
• New Jerusalem (north-east Ethiopia): megacity stated in Pan-Africa map to be the capital of Ethiope (see below), and the new Jewish homeland after the loss of Israel in the Atomic Wars. Briefly entered into a trade agreement with Mega-City One in 2111. Has Christian paramilitaries, who in 2117 had backing from InterDep.
• Casablanca: city-state, stated in Pan-Africa map to have moved east into Algeria to escape the Great African Dustbowl (the Shamballa map had located the city in Algeria by mistake); as large as a megacity, highly disorganised with no formal law beyond an Algerian military commander in 2116. In the earlier "Judge Dredd: Judgement Day", badly attacked by zombies. By 2118 ("Judge Dredd: Darkside"), a Judge force existed that seemed to operate on sufi principles. Was part of the Global Partnership Treaty for Luna-1. Outside of Pan-African Compromise.
• Zambia Metropolitan: mentioned in "Return of the Taxidermist", Megazine 2.37-46
• Dar es Salaam: first shown on the world map, said in Pan Africa map to have become a megacity-sized squatter camp on the coast.
• Siwa: symbol of the compromise. Somewhere on the Egyptian coast. Destroyed in 2117.
• Umur: name mentioned on 701 map, said in some sources to be a mega-city in Libya. (See below)
• Timbuk2: future Timbuktu. The Herod entity was found underneath the city.
• Kaduna City: minor city-state north of River Niger. All 80,000 inhabitants were slaughtered in 2117 during the Yoruba crisis.
• New Nairobi: mentioned in Judge Dredd: The Final Cut, set in 2126.

Countries listed in the Pan Africa map are:

• Algeria
• Libya: said to be a "secular Islamic state"
• Guinea Confederacy: everything on the north-west coast from Guinea up to Morocco, hemmed in by the Dustbowl.
• Sierra Leone
• Liberia
• Volta: Ivory Coast and Ghana, possibly also Togo.
• Greater Nigeria: Nigeria and Niger, possibly Benin. Devastated in 2117
• Chad: devastated in 2117
• Cameroon: devastated in 2117
• Central African Republic
• Ethiope: former Ethiopia, includes the "disputed territories" of Somalia
• Kenya - mentioned in "Return of the Taxidermist", set in 2115.
• Malagasy Republic: former Madagascar; isolationist after the Credit Wars, half-destroyed by accidental nuclear assault and fighting to save the rainforests.

The Development Areas are:

• Katanga Development Area: a large section of the south-east, from the Southern Radiation Zone/Zambia to central Uganda and as far west as half the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Dar es Salaam is on its coast. Devastated in 2117.

• Guinea Development Area: south-west. The rest of the Democratic Republic and Angola. Contains the Communist State of Freedonia, capital Castrovia; and the Free Trades of Cred City. Devastated in 2117.

• Congo Development Area: everything remaining, from central Uganda up to Egypt, that isn't already listed. The Apelino crime family (actual apes) moved there from Mega-City One in 2116. Devastated in 2117.