Conversely, the creation by an author of an imaginary country — such as Ruritania or Graustark — does not automatically transform that imaginary country into a fantasy world, even if the location would be impossible in reality owing to a lack of land to contain it ; but such Ruritanian romances may be pushed toward the category of fantasy worlds by the introduction of, say, witches and wise women, where it is not clear if their magic is effectual.

Ruritania is a fictional country in central Europe which forms the setting for three books by Anthony Hope: The Prisoner of Zenda ( 1894 ), The Heart of Princess Osra ( 1896 ), and Rupert of Hentzau ( 1898 ).

In Hope's oeuvre, Ruritania is depicted as a German-speaking, Roman Catholic country under an absolute monarchy, with deep social, but not ethnic, divisions reflected in the conflicts of the first novel.

In Evelyn Waugh's 1930 comedic novel Vile Bodies, one character is a deposed and maudlin " ex-King of Ruritania "; he is presumably the same figure who appears in several witty P. G.

In the 1974 novel Royal Flash by George Macdonald Fraser, Ruritania is claimed to be a fictional country based on the ( equally fictional ) Duchy of Strackenz that borders Germany and Denmark, and the events of The Prisoner of Zenda were simply imitations of the adventures of Harry Paget Flashman whilst in Strackenz.

Ruritania is featured in the animated series Count Duckula, in which it is depicted as a popular ski resort, with competitions in winter sports held in the Ruritanian town of Danglegoggle.

Ruritania is mentioned in Anno Dracula and The New Traveller's Almanac.

In the time-travelling novel JumpMan Rule # 2, Ruritania is briefly mentioned in a changed future quote:

In the 1967 film Dr Doolittle, starring Rex Harrison, Ruritania is one of the places suggested as a sight seeing destination by Samantha Eggar playing Emma Fairfax during the song " Fabulous Places ".

Ruritania is used as the name of a highly nationalist country in Equatorial Cyberspace, a fictional continent used for a peace-building and conflict resolution simulation at McGill University.

In the comic Aetheric Mechanics, Grand Fenwick is stated to have been annexed by Ruritania.

The book is a travel guide to fantasy lands, islands, cities, and other locations from world literature, including Ruritania, Shangri-La, Xanadu, Atlantis, L. Frank Baum's Oz, Lewis Carroll's Wonderland, Thomas More's Utopia, Edwin Abbott's Flatland, C. S. Lewis ' Narnia, and the realms of Jonathan Swift and J. R. R.

Rassendyll returns to Ruritania to aid the Queen, but is once more forced to impersonate the King after Rupert shoots Rudolf V. In turn, Rassendyll kills Rupert, but is assassinated in the hour of triumph by one of Rupert's henchmen — and thus is spared the crisis of conscience over whether or not to continue the royal deception for years.

* 1923 with Lew Cody as Rupert, turning the tragic ending on its head ( Flavia abdicates to marry Rassendyll, and Ruritania is declared a republic ).

The Heart of Princess Osra is part of Anthony Hope's trilogy of novels set in the fictional country of Ruritania and which spawned the genre of Ruritanian romance.

In Ruritania, love is the appreciation of the beloved ’ s uniqueness, accompanied by the commitment to rise to one ’ s best.

Hope's novels resulted in " Ruritania " becoming a generic term for any small, imaginary, Victorian or Edwardian Era, European kingdom used as the setting for romance, intrigue and the plots of adventure novels.

Warren Ellis used the Ruritania setting as part of his 2008 graphic novella Aetheric Mechanics, in which Britain and Ruritania are fighting a war in the air after Ruritania annexed Grand Fenwick.

Ruritania has also been used to describe the stereotypical development of nationalism in 19th century Eastern Europe, by Ernest Gellner in Nations and Nationalism, in a pastiche of the historical narratives of nationalist movements among Poles, Czechs, Serbians, Romanians, etc.

* Ruritania, a fictional country sometimes used like personal names Alice and Bob as a generic country

For example, inventors of a fictional Eastern European country will typically describe it as a former or current Soviet satellite state, or with a suspense story about a royal family ; if pre-20th century, it will likely resemble Ruritania or feature copious vampires and other supernatural phenomena.

These works, " minor classics " of English literature, are set in the contemporaneous fictional country of Ruritania and spawned the genre known as Ruritanian romance.

Hawke relocates Ruritania to the Balkans, and makes it smaller and more socially cohesive ; Spurling, who places the country in the Carpathians, thus hinting at its being in fact the former Habsburg province of Transylvania — today part of Romania — introduces ethnic and linguistic divisions ; Haythorne puts Ruritania on the Northern side of Czechoslovakia to Spurling's setting.

Ruritania inspired other fictional countries, such as Ixania in Eric Ambler's The Dark Frontier, Riechtenburg in Dornford Yates ' Blood Royal and Fire Below, and Evallonia in John Buchan's Castle Gay and The House of the Four Winds, which share with the original the depiction of complex power struggles in which a visiting protagonist from a real country becomes deeply involved.

In 1970 Neiman-Marcus selected Ruritania as the subject of its annual fortnight, in which the arts, culture, and goods of a country are highlighted both in the store and through special events.

This story commences three years after the conclusion of Zenda, and deals with the same fictional country somewhere in Germanic Middle Europe, the kingdom of Ruritania.

Depiction of the country of Ixania clearly draws on the long-standing sub-genre of Ruritanian romance, derived from Ruritania in Anthony Hope's " The Prisoner of Zenda " and finding many followers and imitatators in the early decades of the Twentieth Century.

Hope's novels give the impression that Ruritania would not be a pleasant place for a modern person to inhabit, with its feckless, autocratic king, police surveillance of suspected subversives and a social structure deeply polarised between the rich and poor.

In Back in the USSA, Princess Flavia of Ruritania marries into an alternate history Romanov dynasty.

" When in Ruritania, do as the Ruritanians do.

Ruritania appears in a newspaper headline in Volume III of Alan Moore's graphic novel, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Shirley Jackson made a wisecrack in her nonfiction book Life Among the Savages about her coin-collecting son and husband receiving " heavy little packages from Ruritania and Atlantis " which often arrived with postage due ; she had to pay it with pennies because the numismatists had absconded with all the other coins in the house.

Ruritania appears in the card game Contraband: one of the cards represents the Ruritanian Crown Jewels.

Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer cited Ruritania as a fictional enemy when illustrating a security treaty between Australia and Indonesia signed on 8 November 2006: " We do not need to have a security agreement with Indonesia so both of us will fight off the Ruritanians.

In the first instance, `` mimesis '' is here used to mean the recalling of experience in terms of vivid images rather than in terms of abstract ideas or conventional designations.

A dominant motive is the poet's longing for his homeland and its boyhood associations: `` Not men-folk, but the fields where I would stray, The stones where as a child I used to play ''.

So in these pages the term `` technology '' is used to include any and all means which could amplify, project, or augment man's control over himself and over other men.

But what a super-Herculean task it is to winnow anything of value from the mud-beplastered arguments used so freely, particularly since such common use is made of cliches and stereotypes, in themselves declarations of intellectual bankruptcy.

This text from Dr. Huxley is sometimes used by enthusiasts to indicate that they have the permission of the scientists to press the case for a wonderful unfoldment of psychic powers in human beings.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

Properly used, the present book is an excellent instrument of enlightenment.

This prospect did not please Mrs. King any more than did the possibility that her daughter might marry a Bohemian, but she used it to suggest to Thompson that, `` It is not in her nature to love you ''.

On the other hand, the consensus of opinion is that, used with caution and in conjunction with other types of evidence, the native sources still provide a valid rough outline for the English settlement of southern Britain.

The trouble with this machinery is that it is not used and the reason that it is not used is the absence of a conscious sense of community among the free nations.

In addition to his experiments in reading poetry to jazz, Patchen is beginning to use the figure of the modern jazz musician as a myth hero in the same way he used the figure of the private detective a decade ago.

When different colors are used, she is just as likely to color trees purple, hair green, etc..

Berlin is merely being used by Moscow as a stalking horse.

The collection of information is meaningless unless it is understood and used for a definite purpose.

This is used as a reference for comparing the ohmic heating and the electrical energy obtained from the measured current through the element and the measured voltage across the element.