While you may tend to think of it in comic film terms, a cross between the Marx Brothers'Republic of Fredonia and Peter Sellers's Ruritania of " The Mouse That Roared,"
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Although the book locates Ruritania along the railway line between Dresden in Sachsen ( Saxony ) and Prague, capital of Bohemia ( modern day Czech Republic ), one can see Hof in the descriptions of Strelsau.
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Fairbanks'defining role, as Rupert of Hentzau, a roguish-but-dashing swordsman maneuvering between villainous Raymond Massey and heroic Ronald Colman, who plays the king of Ruritania and his look-alike cousin.
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In 2015 James Dunford Wood's " Continental with Juice " imagined a scenario in which the modern-day Ruritania ( a recent ex-Soviet republic ) is bankrupt after the European debt crisis.
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""'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.
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A passing reference to the burning of the White Palace in 1848, and thus the conclusion that there was an 1848 Revolution in Ruritania, as elsewhere throughout Europe, highlights the social and political divisions described in the other works.
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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.
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Depiction of the country of Ixania clearly draws on the long-standing subgenre 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.
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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.
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Vesna Goldsworthy of Kingston University, in her book " Inventing Ruritania : the imperialism of the imagination " ( Yale University Press, 1998 ), addresses the question of the impact of the work of novelists and film-makers in shaping international perceptions of the Balkans.
