Early returns from the Research Department suggest that Potemkin Village *may be a blovian metaphor. Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0839897.html suggests "[t]he allegation that he had sham villages ('Potemkin villages') built along her route is, at best, an extreme exaggeration, for Potemkin was in fact an able administrator..."

Research at greater depth continues.