Mex-Cit is a minor city-state in post-atom Mexico.
Between the city and the Texas City territories is the Mex Zone, an arid radiation desert inhabited by savage mutant tribes including a race of bird-men.[1]
History[]
The city developed a rivalry with the Pan-Andes Conurb.[2]
Mex-Cit was already sending Judges to Luna-1 before the Global Lunar Partnership Act, with Mexican Judges already in place in 2099 before Dredd became Lunar Marshall. [3]
In 2101, Judge Dredd foiled a smuggling operation that was bringing illegal robots from Mexico into Mega-City One.[4]
Doctor Hortas had found a way to transplant human brains into animal bodies, a cheaper alternative for sick patients than robot bodies, and he bred genetically-augmented rottweilers that could accept the organs. Rex Youens of Mega-City One visited Mex-Cit for one such transplant in 2113, unaware his wife Marjorie had steered him towards an (unspeaking) dog body to get him out of the way for an affair.[5]
The Mex-Cit team claimed victory in the Mountaineering event at the 2116 Olympics - by dint of being the only living team by the end of it.[6]
In 2121, Irene Smoult grassed up her neighbour Sonja Munt to get on a Tri-D show. Munt was exposed travelling to Mex-Cit to get a heart-transplant from a murder victim. [7]
Judges[]
Mex-Cit Judges in 2099 resembled their Texas City counterparts, but with sombreros in place of stetsons (except when they still wore stetsons).
Mongoose RPG[]
The 2002 Mongoose RPG invented some details in its (non-canon) timeline for Luna-1: In the mid-21st century, the lunar colonies became a formal Luna City One. Mex-Cit and South-Am City were given honourary membership of the Triumverate and sent Judges.[8]
Depiction and development[]
Mex-Cit has only been shown once (as a site of Yankee medical tourism)n and mentioned a handful more times in the comic; the existence of a Mexican state was previously confirmed in the "Mega-Miami" story but this is usually ignored due to the racist depiction of "rustback" robots. However, Mexican Judges had already appeared before these stories in the Luna One stories - but in the strip, they resembled Texan Judges and may have been intended as a Texan contigent (no Mexican city is mentioned). Almost certainly, Judges Che and Chico are there just to boost the Wild West nature of the story. The Mongoose RPG would decide Mex-Cit sent Judges to the moon and the novel Eclipse ran with this (the later Worlds of Dredd RPG would then say Che was a Ciudad Barranquilla Judge!)