Ruritania
Fictional country in central Europe / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ruritania is a fictional country, originally located in Central Europe as a setting for novels by Anthony Hope, such as The Prisoner of Zenda (1894).[1][2] Nowadays, the term connotes a quaint minor European country or is used as a placeholder name for an unspecified country in academic discussions. The first known use of the demonym Ruritanian was in 1896.[3]
Hope's setting lent its name to a literary genre involving fictional countries, which is known as Ruritanian romance.