East Meg One is a fictional city in the world of Judge Dredd, the figurehead character of British weekly comic 2000 AD (comic). This article is about the comic-book character Judge Dredd. ... 2000 AD logo 2000 AD is a weekly British science fiction oriented comic. ...

East Meg One was intended to represent the remnants of the Soviet Union, and was centered on what had originally been Moscow. During the 1980s the city was often portrayed as hostile to Dredd's home city Mega-City One. It's peak population was said to be one half billion people. // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 60s and 70s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... Mega-City One is a huge fictional city covering much of what is now the Eastern United States in the Judge Dredd comic book series. ...

Eventually war broke out between East Meg 1 and Mega City 1 when the East Meggers invaded the Megacity and quickly subjugated it. Judge Dredd lead a covert commando team into East Meg 1 at the climax of the war, disabling it's defences, and then personally pushed the button to launch the nuclear missiles that destroyed it.

Numerous survivors and East Meggers who happened to be away from the city at the time of it's destruction, sought refuge in East Meg Two, another sovietesque megacity to the east.