San Angeles
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San Angeles is a fictional city in the West Coast state of California in the United States. It appears in the television series Sliders (episode "Double Cross") and in the film Demolition Man, but is different in each appearance.
In Sliders, San Angeles was created by uniting the rapidly-expanding cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco in a megalopolis hundreds of miles long. The city - and this alternate Earth - is critically low on natural resources, resulting in power brownouts and high prices for simple resources such as food (which, on this world, mainly consists of a Soylent Green-like compound named "Geomash", although humans are not a component of the product as they are in Soylent Green).
In Demolition Man, San Angeles was created out of the aftermath of a tremendous earthquake in the year 2010. The ruins of San Diego, Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara - along with their surrounding metropolitan areas - were united as one megalopolis under the utopian vision of Raymond Cocteau. However, unlike the poverty of natural resources seen in the San Angeles of Sliders, the San Angeles of Demolition Man suffered from a poverty of the mind, as Cocteau closely controlled all facets of daily life - food, clothing, media, the definition of crimes, even the manner of speech - to conform to his unique vision. Consequently, though this San Angeles was pristine and clean, it was in its own way just as dystopian as the Sliders San Angeles.
San Angeles was also mentioned as a setting for the movie Blade Runner in an early script.
