Bugarup

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Bugarup is the apparent capital or principal city of FourEcks, the Australia-like continent in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.

Bugarup has a harbour, with an opera house that looks like an open box of tissues, or as if it is about to set sail (see Sydney Opera House). It also has a prison, in which the Prime Minister resides. All politicians in FourEcks are locked up after they are elected, because it saves time later. Another important feature of the city is the Old Brewery, where Roo Beer lager is made. It has a huge billboard featuring a grinning kangaroo. The New Brewery is abandoned, because it was built on an "unsacred site" which made the beer flat.

There is also a university for wizards, motto: Nullus Anxietas (no worries). The university is similar in some ways to Unseen University in Ankh-Morpork, although rather than an 800-foot tall Tower of Art they have one that is thirty feet tall at the bottom, but a half-mile tall at the top. The Archchancellor or 'archchancellor' of Bugarup university is Bill Rincewind, apparently some kind of very distant relative of everyone's favourite cowardly wizard, also called Rincewind.

Bugarup has a regular festival very similar to the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. It is called the Galah, possibly after a local bird (and also a play on "gala").

Bugarup is a thinly-veiled version of Sydney, though it should be noted that Canberra, not Sydney, is Australia's capital.

The city's name is an obvious play on the term "Bugger up", a phrase used by British and Australian speakers which means "to make a mess of something".