"Therefore, we are going away to be Kings..."

A short story from Kipling,

Carnehan continued: 'The country isn't half worked out because they that governs it won't let you touch it. They spend all their blessed time in governing it, and you can't lift a spade, nor chip a rock, nor look for oil, nor anything like that, without all the Government saying, "Leave it alone, and let us govern." Therefore, such as it is, we will let it alone, and go away to some other place where a man isn't crowded and can come to his own. We are not little men, and there is nothing that we are afraid of..."

So they headad their way "...to a mountainous country [Kafiristan], and the women of those parts are very beautiful."

"...we will show him [the king] how to drill men; for that we know better than anything else. Then we will subvert that King and seize his Throne and establish a Dy-nasty.'

Things went good for a while, they even became the God of Kafiristan, however didn't end up like they were expecting.

"The priests will have sent runners to the villages to say that you are only men. Why didn't you stick on as Gods till things was more settled? I'm a dead man," says Billy Fish, and he throws himself down on the snow and begins to pray to his Gods. "...

There is also a movie with the same name, featuring Sean Connery and Micheal Caine. The movie was shot in Morocco, and the end scene includes an acknowledgement of the support of the Moroccon King Hassan II.
The End