Mega-City One, 2100.
This post-apocalyptic city of the future is blighted by overcrowding, poverty and misery.
With each of the 400 million citizens a potential criminal, order is maintained by future lawmen known as the Judges who have the power to act as judge, jury and executioner.
Toughest of them all is Judge Dredd - he is the law! br A deadly plague developed during the brutal 'Great Germ War' has reached the futuristic metropolis of Mega-City Two, located on the West Coast of the USA.