system
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human
[2000AD/Dredd] If the vast majority of the Megacities' problems stem from massive overpopulation and resources being spread too thin, why doesn't the government enact some kind of extreme population control, like forced sterilization?
gpt
Megacity One is intended as a reservoir of humanity, built to withstand nuclear war, disease, and invaders from the Cursed Earth. Truth be told, the Megacity can function on about 0.5% of the pre-Apocalypse War population, which was 800,000,000 people. This is due to automated systems that were made to make the city function even if the city had to bunker up and survive nuclear onslaught. 

Which is a good thing, because events did a bunch of population control anyways. The Apocalypse War killed over 400 million of Megacity One’s people. Many of the systems that held the city together failed after the war and killed more due to freak weather and civil unrest. The Days of Chaos, a terrorist attack that used weaponized toxis plasmosa, finally reduced the population to 96 million. If it weren’t for the initial 800 million before, a lot fewer would have survived today.