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Ruritania
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Ruritania
1. an imaginary kingdom of central Europe: setting of several novels by Anthony Hope, esp The Prisoner of Zenda (1894)
2. any setting of adventure, romance, and intrigue

Ruritania
imaginary pre-WWI kingdom, rife with political machinations. [Br. Lit.: Prisoner of Zenda]
See : Intrigue


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Fleet Street lost interest after some problems with the Queen Flavia diaries marketed by emigres -- the authentication by an eminent Oxbridge historian proving premature, to say the least -- and the Ruritanians themselves made the best of matters with the help of the local schnapps, jokes, and ill-founded rumours.
 
 
 
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