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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.
The story is Burrough's version of the then popular Ruritanian romance exemplified by Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau.