Lord
Havelock Vetinari, Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, is a fictional character in
Terry Pratchett's
Discworld series, a series of forty books describing a parallel
universe whose main world has reflections of our
Earth. He is depicted as the ruler of the
city-state of
Ankh-Morpork. Vetinari is sometimes said to have been based on the Italian statesman and diplomat,
Niccolò Machiavelli, but in fact favours a subtly different (though equally pragmatic) form of
administration.