ruritanian

Of or having the characteristics of adventure, romance, and intrigue, as in works of romantic fiction.

These claims were called the Greater Ruritania by the cultivated classes who regarded Kipling, Treitschke, and Maurice Barres as one hundred percent Ruritanian. But the grandiose idea aroused no enthusiasm abroad. So holding this finest flower of the Ruritanian genius, as their poet laureate said, to their hearts, Ruritania's statesmen went forth to divide and conquer.

Used to describe a fictitious and generic foreign government or person, used to state a general or hypothetical situation.

In practice, the Ruritanian regime is autocratic, controlling business, government, finance, and military posts.

A person from the fictional land of Ruritania.