ديرة بطيخ

Etymology
From Gulf Arabic in the construct state and, literally "cantaloupe country". The phrase has an uncertain origin, with folk etymologies mentioning a story of a failed investment in Kuwait City, a British man of authority in Kuwait under the British role whose last name was Watermelon, a story of a man giving a cantaloupe to a guard of a cemetery, historical rights for cantaloupe and/or watermelon sellers to the gates of the historical Wall of Kuwait, and other stories. In Kuwaiti Arabic, cantaloupes are called but watermelons are. However, most other varieties of Arabic call watermelons by the former, thus the original meaning of the phrase could have been "watermelon country" if the phrase is borrowed or if the distinction did not exist when the phrase emerged.

Noun

 * 1) a city, state in bad shape, a country rife with wasta (cronyism)