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Genua
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Genua is a country across the main continent from Ankh-Morpork, past the Ramtops and Überwald. Genua as a country makes its money by taxing the river traffic.
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[edit] Location and geography
Genua is also often mentioned colloquially as the location that is far from Ankh-Morpork but on the same continent, for example, "Send a clacks all the way to Genua to order a pint of prawns" (The Truth). Genua is near the Rim of the Disc, and therefore has a warm, wet, sunny climate that would have been called "tropical" on a Roundworld. Much of Genua is swamps at the mouth of the Vieux River.
[edit] Culture
Genua is a country of cooks and carnivals. It is said that in Genua there is not much to cook, so the cooks learn to turn anything and everything into a gourmet meal. Ingredients that might make an Ankh-Morporkian or a Lancrastrian feel ill include: whiskery things, tentacled things, snake's head (animal product, not name of a plant), dead leaves, things dredged out of mud. The annual carnival is called Mardi Gras, where there is costumed dancing and drinking on the streets on the night of Samedi Nuit Morte.
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[edit] Books
Genua has a major role in Witches Abroad.
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Genua draws many characteristics from New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A, and is also partly based on Disney's Magic Kingdom. Also interesting to note is that the name of the town is shared by the Italian town Genoa, but this is probably a coincidence.
