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They form a sort of advisory city council, with a system of one man, one vote – the Patrician being the 'one man' in question. Power is, to some degree, shared with the many Guilds and the surviving nobility. Patricians have been known to resign, but this is very much the exception. The succession of the Patrician occurs normally by either assassination or revolution.

There are many unknown basements, including an entire 'cave network' below Ankh-Morpork made up of old streets and abandoned sewers. Lying approximately equidistant from the cold, mountainous Hub and tropical Rim, Ankh-Morpork is in the Discworld's equivalent of the temperate zone.Īnkh-Morpork is built on black loam, broadly, but it is mostly built on itself pragmatic citizens simply built on top of the existing buildings rather than excavate them out as the river flooded and the sediment grew too high. The city itself lies on the River Ankh, the most polluted waterway on the Discworld, which divides it into the more affluent Ankh and the poorer Morpork (including the slum-like 'Shades').

The name 'Ankh-Morpork' refers to both the city itself, a walled city about 5 miles (8 km) across, and the surrounding suburbs and farms of its fiefdom.

He also stated that since the creation of The Streets of Ankh-Morpork, he tried to ensure that the descriptions of character movements and locations in the books matched the Ankh-Morpork map this allowed him, and fans of the series, to visualise the story more clearly. In The Art of Discworld, Pratchett explains that the city is similar to Tallinn and central Prague, but adds that it has elements of 18th-century London, 19th-century Seattle and modern-day New York City. Tallinn, one of the real-life inspirations for Ankh-Morpork

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