Djelibeybi

Djelibeybi is also known as the Kingdom of the Sun and the Old Kingdom. Major activities include growing melons, garlic, and building pyramids.

Djelibeybi, situated on the Circle Sea coast of Klatch, is two miles wide and one hundred and miles long.

Djelibeybi is almost entirely underwater during the flood season and both threatened and protected on either side by stronger neighbours (Tsort and Ephebe).

It was once great, but all that now remains is an expensive palace, a few dusty ruins in the desert, and the pyramids. For a very long time the entire economic life of the country was devoted to building them its pyramids, which left Djelibeybi in a constant state of bankruptcy.

The kingdom is 7000 years old. In the Pyramid era time moved slowly in Djelibeybi, and even then only in circles. This was, once again, because of the pyramids. Pyramids slow down time and prevent decay. So many had been built in the Old Kingdom, however, that their cumulative effect was to act as a temporal brake of major proportions.

For a long time the thousands of pyramids in the necropolis, a city of the dead occupying some of the kingdom's best land and second only to Ankh-Morpork as the biggest city on the Discworld, were actually preventing time from moving at all. The pyramids were acting as time accumulators, sucking in fresh time as it occurred and, around the sunset, flaring it off from their tips. As a result the kingdom spent thousands of years reusing the same day.

Djelibeybi has many local gods, unknown to the rest of the Discworld. The Pharaoh is also a god, although in human form. He wears a gold mask (the Face of the Sun) and during his official functions carries the Flail of Mercy, the obsidian Reaping Hook of Justice, the Honeycomb of Increase, the Asp of Wisdom, the Sheaf of Plenty, the Gourd of the Water of the Heavens, the Three-Pronged Spear of the Waters of the Earth, the Cabbage of the Vegetative Increase and the Scapula of Hygiene. However, Queen Ptraci I, the current ruler of Djelibeybi, may well have sold the Pharaoh trappings and spent the money on plumbing.