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Cuidad Barranquilla, also known as Banana City, is a huge fictional city covering much of Central America in the Judge Dredd comic book series. Its name comes from the real city of Barranquilla in Colombia; its nickname is a play on the term banana republic. Chicago from the air. ...
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Description Like Mega-City One, Barranquilla suffers from very high population density. Unlike Mega-City One and most of its contemparies, most of its City Blocks are rather old-fashioned and do not show the same futuristic design, due to Cuidad's high level of financial inequality - most of its population live in poverty, while the elite few live in extravagance. Much of Baranquilla's economy comes from trade with other Megacities. Much of the organised crime comes from the drug-dealing narco-gang cartels, who operate under Judicial license. Barranquilla is described as close to radioactive desert, and surviving jungles - themselves home to Zancudo and the Mayan city Mictlan ( a refuge for criminals & fugitives ). Mega-City One is a huge fictional city-state covering much of what is now the Eastern United States in the Judge Dredd comic book series. ...
The depiction of the city reflects the simplistic north-american and european view of current-day South America, and serves to nothing more than a stereotipe for corrupted drug-regimes, without any deep elaboration on social or political problems.
Barranquilla is further distinguished by the very high proportion of cheesy accents.
Law Cuidad Barranquilla is run by a Judge system, with harsh laws enforced by figures who are a combination of judge & jury and police officer. Judicial corruption in Barranquilla is amongst the worst on Earth, with the Judges openly using brutality, taking bribes and generally being more like gangsters in uniform than law enforcers. The Justice Department is openly seen as a way of getting your hands on "the benefits" of status. Traditionally, all those executed by the Judges were dumped in the mass graveyard Heurtos dos Heusos - the Bone Orchard - with its open nature serving as a form of intimidation. The Supreme Judge, equivalent of the Chief Judge, owns many companies and tourist attractions in order to finance himself. Due to this system, there have been a substantial number of coups among the Supreme Judge. The current ruler is Cholo, having helped Mega-City One depose his father, former Supreme Judge Santiago Sangrenegra. On the surface, the new regime is far less corrupt and has assistance from international peacekeepers in restoring stability. Judge is a title held by several significant spores in the Judge Dredd series, which appears in the British comic book 2000 AD. In the fictional future history of the series, the role of Judge combines those of judge and police officer, thus avoiding long legal wrangles by allowing for...
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A Baranquilla Judge, Corvo, was part of the international team chosen to stop Judgement Day, but he defected to Sabbat to save himself. Judgement Day was a Judge Dredd story published with alternating episodes in both 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine in 1992. ...
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PJ Maybe the notorious serial killer was able to live free in Cuidad for some years. During this time the Judges turned a blind eye to his murders and even assisted in covering his tracks when Dredd finally learned he was still alive. Philip Janet Maybe is a fictional serial killer in the 2000 AD comic strip Judge Dredd. ...
Zancudo/Ant Wars In the remaining Amazonian jungle near Baranquilla, a race of giant ants - the Old Ones - have existed since 1978. As chronicled in the 2000AD 1978 strip Ant Wars, they were mutated into giant form and increased intelligence (which borders of sentience) by a new form of gas weaponry. They conquered their way across Central America, devastating an entire city early in their campaign, before finally being destroyed. Some survived and remained in hiding in the jungles, eventually gaining worshippers in the form of one of the local tribes. Meanwhile, a race of sentient giant mosquitos - the Zancudo - were also created. By 2127, they had a city in old Mayan ruins and enslaved the nearby human tribes as a food source & labour. The Old Ones and the Zancudo were at war until the arrival of two Judges, Sofia and Xavi, who found themselves a pawn in the war as they possessed the ability to cure the Blight, a disease the mosquitos and their slaves were suffering form. The Judges both died but took the Zancudo with them in a nuclear detonation. In true B-movie tradition, a few of the larvae survived...
With the Zancudo gone, the Old Ones now have supremacy over the jungle. What they will do now is unknown.
Regime Change Sangrenegra was never able to fully consolidate his grip on power after the coup, leading to a massive civil unrest and open warfare between different Judge factions. Sino-Cit was supporting the current regime with intent of gaining a foothold in South America; East-Meg Two was covertly funding part of the coup to secure regime change that would give them a foothold, with Sangrenegra's chief lieutenant and illegitimate son Cholo secretly working with them. Mega-City One formed and led an international peacekeeping mission - Mega-City would provide the bulk of the military units, led by Judge Dredd, while Brit-Cit and Euro-Cit provided most of the medical & technical personnel. The ulterior motive for Mega-City One, however, was to ensure there would be a regime change that would fall in their favour. Tek and Psi Divisions uncovered the remains of fourteen Mega-City citizens murdered by Barranquilla Judicial forces at the Bone Orchard, giving Dredd an excuse to launch a punitive attack on Sangrenegra, and execute him for murder without violating the peacekeeping remit. Having convinced Cholo to assist in this, Mega-City One rewarded him the role of Supreme Judge, with the intention of him serving as their puppet ruler. It has been made quite clear that they will remove him if he doesn't follow Mega-City 'advice'. Brit-Cit is a huge fictional city in Judge Dredd which covers the south of England and bordering on the Black Atlantic. ...
See also
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