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.