ruritanian

/ˌɹʊə.ɹɪˈteɪ.ni.ən/

Etymology

From Ruritania + -an, after the fictional kingdom used as the setting for stories by Anthony Hope (1863–1933).

adj

Of or having the characteristics of adventure, romance, and intrigue, as in works of romantic fiction.“He had, it is true, indulged in a sort of Ruritanian flirtation with the queen, seen her secretly, pronounced her very solemnly the “only man” about the king, and made rather a fool of himself in that matter, but his schemes were drawn upon a much larger scale than the scale of the back stairs of the Tuileries.”
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.”