Brit-Cit is the name by which the former United Kingdom is known in the mid 22nd century. Veteran Robo-Hunter Sam C Slade moved there after being significantly de-aged during the Verdus incident and subsequently barred from operating in New York as a result of antagonising the Amalgamated Androids Union.
Slade discovered Brit-Cit to be a place where virtually every job imaginable was done by robots (and where, indeed, humans were often barely visible on the streets). This frequently irritated him, despite the obvious advantages (for a man whose profession was hunting rogue robots) of living in a robot-based society. Sam felt that the robots of Brit-Cit had ceased to know their place — an understandable attitude given that, at the time, even the government were robots, led by the formidable Prime Droid Iron Aggie. The country's football team were all robots, too, though in keeping with decades of tradition, most of them were foreigners. Slade eventually moved back to New York.
- Note: the version of Brit-Cit seen in the Robo-Hunter series appears not to be the same one seen in various stories set in the Judge Dredd universe.
- Brit-Cit first appeared in 2000 AD prog 259.
Notable residents[]
- Sam C Slade (an American Robo-Hunter trapped in a land not his own)
- Hoagy (an idiot robot)
- Stogie (a robotic Cuban cigar based on Carlos Ezquerra, one of 2000 AD's most famous artists)
- Kidd (an obnoxious Robo-Hunter trapped in the body of a baby)
- Iron Aggie (the Prime Droid, head of Brit-Cit's government, based on British prime minister Margaret Thatcher)
- Sir Oswald Modroid (a treacherous government minister based on Oswald Mosley, Britain's most famous fascist)
- Filby (a former human client of Sam Slade)
- Goldhawk (a robot who managed an apartment complex where Sam Slade once resided)
- Kev, Bev and the two Trevs (football droids)
- Brian, Brian and Brian (commentator droids)
Notable locations[]
- Baker Street, where Slade had his office.
- Blackheart Manor (see below).
- Brighton Front, which recreated Brighton "exactly as it was in its heyday in 2001." However, the recreation was a façade propped up by scaffolding.
- Epping Forest Museum, which contained "a few scraggy trees" — all that was left of Epping Forest. The trees were destroyed when two members of Special Branch who were chasing Sam Slade crashed their car into them.
- University (unnamed, possibly for legal reasons) where students carry out the time-honoured British tradition of studying even though there are no jobs for them to do after they graduate.
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