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==INSTALL YOUR NIG<i></i>GER.==
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|image    = Earth In the Forest of the Night.jpg
|aka      = Sol III, Terra, [[Mondas]], Tellus, Gaia, Ravolox, Avallion, Antýkhon, [[New Skaro]], Erith, Old Earth, Orphan 55
|type    = [[Planet]]
|location = The [[solar system]]
|first    = An Unearthly Child (TV story)
|appearances = [[Earth - list of appearances|'''''see list''''']]
|moons    = [[The Moon]]
|natives  = [[Human]]s, [[Silurian]]s, [[Sea Devil]]s
|clip    = Creation of the Earth - Doctor Who - The Runaway Bride - BBC
|clip2    = "I'm the Last of the Time Lords..." (HD) The End of the World Doctor Who
}}{{you may|Earth (short story)|n1=the short story}}
'''Earth''', also known as '''the Earth''' ([[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Beginning (audio story)|The Beginning]]'') and '''Planet Earth''', ([[TV]]: ''[[World War Three (TV story)|World War Three]]'', ''[[The Long Game (TV story)|The Long Game]]'', ''[[Bad Wolf (TV story)|Bad Wolf]]'') was a [[planet]] in the [[solar system]] whose native sapient species were primarily the [[human]] race ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') and the [[Silurian]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)|Doctor Who and the Silurians]]'') though they were by no means the only intelligent species to develop there. The twin planet of [[Mondas]], it was the third planet from [[Sol|its sun]] and therefore also known as '''Sol III''' (or '''Sol 3'''), ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'', ''[[Voyage of the Damned (TV story)|Voyage of the Damned]]'') though mainly to extraterrestrial cultures. In one potential future, societal environmental irresponsibility caused the planet to degenerate into an [[orphan planet]], and it became known as '''Orphan 55'''. ([[TV]]: ''[[Orphan 55 (TV story)|Orphan 55]]'')


By the [[20th century]], various incarnations of [[the Doctor]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'', ''[[Partners in Crime (TV story)|Partners in Crime]]'', ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'') as well as [[Romana II|Romana]] ([[TV]]: ''[[City of Death (TV story)|City of Death]]'') and [[Hardaker (Voyage of the Damned)|Captain Hardaker]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Voyage of the Damned (TV story)|Voyage of the Damned]]'') referred to Earth as a "[[Level 5 planet]]".
You should install your nig<i></i>ger differently according to whether you have purchased the field or house model. Field nig<i></i>gers work best in a serial configuration, i.e. chained together. Chain your nig<i></i>ger to another nig<i></i>ger immediately after unpacking it, and don't even think about taking that chain off, ever. Many nig<i></i>gers start singing as soon as you put a chain on them. This habit can usually be thrashed out of them if nipped in the bud. House nig<i></i>gers work best as standalone units, but should be hobbled or hamstrung to prevent attempts at escape. At this stage, your nig<i></i>ger can also be given a name. Most owners use the same names over and over, since nig<i></i>gers become confused by too much data. Rufus, Rastus, Remus, Toby, Carslisle, Carlton, Hey-You!-Yes-you!, Yeller, Blackstar, and Sambo are all effective names for your new buck nig<i></i>ger. If your nig<i></i>ger is a ho, it should be called Latrelle, L'Tanya, or Jemima. Some owners call their nig<i></i>ger hoes Latrine for a joke. Pearl, Blossom, and Ivory are also righteous names for nig<i></i>ger hoes. These names go straight over your nig<i></i>ger's head, by the way.


It was a planet in which the [[the Doctor]] had a "particular interest" ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') in all known [[incarnation]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Thing of Guile (audio story)|A Thing of Guile]]'') It may even have been the origin of some of the Doctor's [[DNA]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') Certainly, it was the planet from which the Doctor drew most of their [[companion|travelling companions]]. It was also a planet about whose complete history the Doctor had demonstrated expertise, often knowing minutiae about it and being able to sense [[fixed point in time|which points]] in its history and in its solar system's history were able to be altered, and which not. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Waters of Mars (TV story)|The Waters of Mars]]'') The [[Fourth Doctor]] once referred to it as his "home from home", ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Devil's Armada (audio story)|The Devil's Armada]]'') as did the [[First Doctor|First]]. He found that something about the planet always cheered him up. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Rag & Bone Man's Story (short story)|The Rag & Bone Man's Story]]'') Although the [[Twelfth Doctor]] for a time claimed that the Earth wasn't his home, ([[TV]]: ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'') he later admitted that "This [was his] world too." ([[TV]]: ''[[In the Forest of the Night (TV story)|In the Forest of the Night]]'') Even the [[War Doctor]] maintained a special fondness for Earth and Terran culture. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Thing of Guile (audio story)|A Thing of Guile]]'') By the [[21st century]], the Doctor had become an [[The Doctor in popular culture|integral part]] of Earth culture. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Mark of Terror (comic story)|The Mark of Terror]]'' et al.)
==CONFIGURE YOUR NIG<i></i>GER.==


It attracted many alien invasion attempts throughout its multi-billion year history. Indeed, it owed its very existence to a species that hadn't originated there. Its core was formed around either a [[Racnoss]] [[webstar]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride (TV story)|The Runaway Bride]]'') or a [[Time Lord]] containment shell ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference - Book One]]'') which hid the [[caldera]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Head of State (novel)|Head of State]]'', ''[[A Bloody (And Public) Domaine (short story)|A Bloody (And Public) Domaine]]'')
Owing to a design error, your nig<i></i>ger comes equipped with a tongue and vocal chords. Most nig<i></i>gers can master only a few basic human phrases with this apparatus - "muh dick" being the most popular. However, others make barking, yelping, yapping noises and appear to be in some pain, so you should probably call a vet and have him remove your nig<i></i>ger's tongue. Once de-tongued your nig<i></i>ger will be a lot happier - at least, you won't hear it complaining anywhere near as much. Nig<i></i>gers have nothing interesting to say, anyway. Many owners also castrate their nig<i></i>gers for health reasons (yours, mine, and that of women, not the nig<i></i>ger's). This is strongly recommended, and frankly, it's a mystery why this is not done on the boat.


Still, it was not a planet that was merely ripe for invasion. Its history included long periods of time where it was a formidable player in intergalactic politics. At the height of its influence, Earth was the centre of several massive empires and confederations, and its DNA was flung to the furthest reaches of the [[universe]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'', ''[[The Monster of Peladon (TV story)|The Monster of Peladon]]'', ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'', ''[[The Long Game (TV story)|The Long Game]]'', ''[[Planet of the Ood (TV story)|Planet of the Ood]]'') Earth was thought to be the homeworld of [[the Enemy]] in the [[War in Heaven]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book Two (novel)|Interference - Book Two]]'', ''[[T.memeticus: A Morphology (short story)|T.memeticus: A Morphology]]'', et al.) with some Time Lords suspecting that the thousands of alien invasions the planet endured were faked. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'')
==HOUSE YOUR NIG<i></i>GER.==


== Astronomical data ==
Your nig<i></i>ger can be accommodated in cages with stout iron bars. Make sure, however, that the bars are wide enough to push pieces of nig<i></i>ger food through. The rule of thumb is, four nig<i></i>gers per square yard of cage. So a fifteen foot by thirty foot nig<i></i>ger cage can accommodate two hundred nig<i></i>gers. You can site a nig<i></i>ger cage anywhere, even on soft ground. Don't worry about your nig<i></i>ger fashioning makeshift shovels out of odd pieces of wood and digging an escape tunnel under the bars of the cage. Nig<i></i>gers never invented the shovel before and they're not about to now. In any case, your nig<i></i>ger is certainly too lazy to attempt escape. As long as the free food holds out, your nig<i></i>ger is living better than it did in Africa, so it will stay put. Buck nig<i></i>gers and hoe nig<i></i>gers can be safely accommodated in the same cage, as bucks never attempt sex with black hoes.
=== Location ===
Earth was located at [[galactic coordinate|galactic coordinates]] 58044 684884 ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pirate Planet (TV story)|The Pirate Planet]]'') in [[Sector 8023]] of the [[Third Quadrant]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') Being caught in a [[time corridor]] on [[Frontios]], the [[Fifth Doctor]] commented that the TARDIS was being dragged towards "the middle of the universe" before arriving on Earth. ([[TV]]: [[Frontios (TV story)|''Frontios'']])


It was the third planet in the [[solar system]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'', ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'', ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'', ''[[Voyage of the Damned (TV story)|Voyage of the Damned]]'') located 149,600,000 [[kilometre|kilometres]] away from [[the Sun]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Hyperion Empire (comic story)|The Hyperion Empire]]'') At one point the planet was transported to the [[Medusa Cascade]] by the [[Dalek]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'') and was subsequently towed back to its normal orbit in the Solar system by [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'') Earth's "constellation" was later shifted across two [[Light-year|light-years]] of space by the [[Time Lord|Time Lords]] and renamed "Ravolox" circa [[2000000|2,000,000 AD]], being returned at some later point to its original location. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mysterious Planet (TV story)|The Mysterious Planet]]'')
==FEED YOUR NIG<i></i>GER.==


=== Moon(s) ===
Your Nig<i></i>ger likes fried chicken, corn bread, and watermelon. You should therefore give it none of these things because its lazy ass almost certainly doesn't deserve it. Instead, feed it on porridge with salt, and creek water. Your nig<i></i>ger will supplement its diet with whatever it finds in the fields, other nig<i></i>gers, etc. Experienced nig<i></i>ger owners sometimes push watermelon slices through the bars of the nig<i></i>ger cage at the end of the day as a treat, but only if all nig<i></i>gers have worked well and nothing has been stolen that day. Mike of the Old Ranch Plantation reports that this last one is a killer, since all nig<i></i>gers steal something almost every single day of their lives. He reports he doesn't have to spend much on free watermelon for his nig<i></i>gers as a result. You should never allow your nig<i></i>ger meal breaks while at work, since if it stops work for more than ten minutes it will need to be retrained. You would be surprised how long it takes to teach a nig<i></i>ger to pick cotton. You really would. Coffee beans? Don't ask. You have no idea.
For much of Earth's history until [[2049]], a planetoid-sized egg was a satellite of Earth. This egg, known as [[the Moon]], impacted the Earth's tides and eventually hatched in 2049. The creature replaced the Moon's position with a "new moon" - equal in size to the original - when it laid another egg shortly after hatching. ([[TV]]: ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'') By the time of the [[Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire]], the Earth had five moons. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Long Game (TV story)|The Long Game]]'')


=== Geology ===
==ENTERTAIN YOUR NIG<i></i>GER.==
Earth was rich in many valuable metals and elements. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks]]'') It was one of the few sources of [[quartz]] in [[Mutter's Spiral|the galaxy]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pirate Planet (TV story)|The Pirate Planet]]'') and was also rich in [[silicon]] and [[carbon]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Four to Doomsday (TV story)|Four to Doomsday]]'')


The planet was not entirely [[Sphere|spherical]], which meant that [[Shanghai]] and [[Buenos Aires]], while technically [[antipode]]s, were slightly off. [[The Blessing]] ran through the Earth between those two points. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Blood Line (TV story)|The Blood Line]]'')
Your nig<i></i>ger enjoys play, like most animals, so you should play with it regularly. A happy smiling nig<i></i>ger works best. Games nig<i></i>gers enjoy include: 1) A good thrashing: every few days, take your nig<i></i>ger's pants down, hang it up by its heels, and have some of your other nig<i></i>gers thrash it with a club or whip. Your nig<i></i>ger will signal its intense enjoyment by shrieking and sobbing. 2) Lynch the nig<i></i>ger: nig<i></i>gers are cheap and there are millions more where yours came from. So every now and then, push the boat out a bit and lynch a nig<i></i>ger.


=== Atmosphere and gravity ===
Lynchings are best done with a rope over the branch of a tree, and nig<i></i>gers just love to be lynched. It makes them feel special. Make your other nig<i></i>gers watch. They'll be so grateful, they'll work harder for a day or two (and then you can lynch another one). 3) Nig<i></i>ger dragging: Tie your nig<i></i>ger by one wrist to the tow bar on the back of suitable vehicle, then drive away at approximately 50mph. Your nig<i></i>ger's shrieks of enjoyment will be heard for miles. It will shriek until it falls apart. To prolong the fun for the nig<i></i>ger, do NOT drag him by his feet, as his head comes off too soon. This is painless for the nig<i></i>ger, but spoils the fun. Always wear a seatbelt and never exceed the speed limit. 4) Playing on the PNL: a variation on (2), except you can lynch your nig<i></i>ger out in the fields, thus saving work time. Nig<i></i>gers enjoy this game best if the PNL is operated by a man in a tall white hood. 5) Hunt the nig<i></i>ger: a variation of Hunt the Slipper, but played outdoors, with Dobermans. WARNING: do not let your Dobermans bite a nig<i></i>ger, as they are highly toxic.
Earth's [[atmosphere]] was 80% [[nitrogen]] and 20% [[oxygen]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Resurrection of Mars (audio story)|The Resurrection of Mars]]'') [[Carbon dioxide]] was vital to Earth's lower atmosphere. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ice Warriors (TV story)|The Ice Warriors]]'') Due to [[human]] activity, Earth had a lot of [[toxin]]s and [[dioxin]]s in its atmosphere, which would have provided decent nutrition for the [[Nestene Consciousness]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'')


The [[First Doctor]] noted that Earth's atmosphere and [[gravity]] were roughly equivalent to those on [[Gallifrey]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Rag & Bone Man's Story (short story)|The Rag & Bone Man's Story]]'')
==DISPOSAL OF DEAD NIG<i></i>GERS.==


As the [[Third Doctor]] noted, with the invention of the [[car|motor car]] came a change in Earth's atmosphere. ([[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]'') As cars admitted excess [[carbon dioxide]] into the atmosphere, causing [[pollution]], they were fitted with [[ATMOS]] in the [[2009]], and didn't emit any at all. What they did add to the atmosphere, though, was [[clone feed]], as it was the [[Sontaran]]s' plan to convert Earth into a [[cloning world]]. This was reversed by the [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Luke Rattigan]], who used an [[atmospheric converter]] to clean up the atmosphere again. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)|The Sontaran Stratagem]]'', ''[[The Poison Sky (TV story)|The Poison Sky]]'') Nevertheless, the pollution of Earth's atmosphere through [[global warming]] reached a point of no return in the early [[21st century]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Warhead (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Warhead]]'')
Nig<i></i>gers die on average at around 40, which some might say is 40 years too late, but there you go. Most people prefer their nig<i></i>gers dead, in fact. When yours dies, report the license number of the car that did the drive-by shooting of your nig<i></i>ger. The police will collect the nig<i></i>ger and dispose of it for you.


=== Geography ===
==MY NIG<i></i>GER BITCHES ABOUT ITS "RIGHTS" AND "RACISM".==
Earth was 70[[percentage|%]] [[water]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)|The Fires of Pompeii]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Kings of Infinite Space (audio story)|Kings of Infinite Space]]'')


Earth's surface changed considerably over the course of its long history, owing to its high seismic activity. When native life first appeared on the planet, for example, what later became the middle of the [[Atlantic Ocean]] was a vast, rocky wasteland. ([[TV]]: ''[[City of Death (TV story)|City of Death]]'')
Yeah, well, it would. Tell it to shut the fuck up.


The actions of humans, specifically their [[pollution]], also had a major effect on the geography of the world. Earth nearly became an [[ocean world]] in the early [[22nd century]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Kings of Infinite Space (audio story)|Kings of Infinite Space]]'') By the [[26th century]], the seas of Earth had been polluted, [[radiation|irradiated]], set on [[fire]] and [[boiling|boiled]] off into a thick [[sludge]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Ship of Fools (novel)|Ship of Fools]]'') By the [[52nd century]], [[winter]]s no longer occurred due to [[global warming]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Frozen (short story)|The Frozen]]'') However, in the days of the [[Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire]], the Earth was far less polluted than in the twentieth century. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)|The Daleks' Master Plan]]'')
==MY NIG<i></i>GER IS VERY AGGRESSIVE.==


Over millions of years, [[continental drift]] caused the surface of Earth to change radically, creating such features as the [[Arctic Desert]] and the [[Los Angeles Crevasse]]. The [[National Trust]] installed [[gravity satellite]]s to hold back the expanding [[Sol|Sun]], from a now uninhabited Earth. They also shifted the [[continent]]s back to their earlier positions, a planetary style known as "Classic Earth", which took billions of years. It stayed like this until the planet's final destruction ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of the World (TV story)|The End of the World]]'') in the year [[5000000000|5,000,000,000]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[New Earth (TV story)|New Earth]]'')
Have it put down, for god's sake. Who needs an uppity nig<i></i>ger? What are we, short of nig<i></i>gers or something?


== Sapient native species ==
==MY NIG<i></i>GER KEEPS RAPING WHITE WOMEN.==
Several sapient and semi-sapient species evolved on Earth, though the most important and influential ones were the [[human]]s and [[Earth Reptile]]s, known as Silurians. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Cold Blood (TV story)|Cold Blood]]'')


Other sapient species native to Earth included the [[Fairy|Fairies]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Small Worlds (TV story)|Small Worlds]]''), [[Sidhe (Autumn Mist)|Sidhe]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Autumn Mist (novel)|Autumn Mist]]''), the [[dolphin]]s ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Island of Death (novel)|Island of Death]]''), the [[Carpanthan]]s ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Fishmen of Carpantha (comic story)|The Fishmen of Carpantha]]''), the [[Merman|Mermen]] ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Guests of King Neptune (comic story)|Guests of King Neptune]], ''[[AUDIO]]: ''[[Cryptobiosis (audio story)|Cryptobiosis]]''), the [[Tusken]]s ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Mad Dogs and Englishmen (novel)|Mad Dogs and Englishmen]]'') and the [[Erithian]]s ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Caves of Erith (audio story)|The Caves of Erith]]'').
They all do this. Shorten your nig<i></i>ger's chain so it can't reach any white women, and arm heavily any white women who might go near it.


== Flora and fauna ==
==WILL MY NIG<i></i>GER ATTACK ME?==
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In its long history, many [[species]] had [[evolution|evolved]] on Earth. By the [[21st century]], over three hundred billion species of animals had already evolved and gone [[extinction|extinct]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Last Dodo (novel)|The Last Dodo]]'')


The Fourth Doctor stated that Earth was the only planet in its galaxy where [[oak]] trees grew. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Android Invasion (TV story)|The Android Invasion]]'') [[Botanist]]s tried to seed oak trees on other [[colony]] [[planet]]s, but found that they always died. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Unknown (audio story)|The Unknown]]'')
Not unless it outnumbers you 20 to 1, and even then, it's not likely. If nig<i></i>gers successfully overthrew their owners, they'd have to sort out their own food. This is probably why nig<i></i>ger uprisings were nonexistent (until some fool gave them rights).


The [[Tree of Cheem|Trees of Cheem]], a race of intelligent [[humanoid]] [[tree]]s, originally descended from the tropical [[rainforest]]s of Earth. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of the World (audio story)|The End of the World]]'')
==MY NIG<i></i>GER'S HIDE IS A FUNNY COLOR. WHAT IS THE CORRECT SHADE FOR A NIG<i></i>GER?==


== Historical significance ==
A nig<i></i>ger's skin is actually more or less transparent. That brown color you can see is the shit your nig<i></i>ger is full of. This is why some models of nig<i></i>ger are sold as "The Shitskin".
=== Early history ===
==== Before life ====
[[File:Earth 6 billion years ago.jpg|thumb|Earth around 6 billion years prior to [[1974]], on a [[Tuesday]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hide (TV story)|Hide]]'')]]
Following [[Rassilon]]'s [[Eternal War]] against the [[Yssgaroth]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Pit (novel)|The Pit]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[State of Decay (TV story)|State of Decay]]'') the [[Time Lord]]s tracked down all the openings to the [[Spiral Yssgaroth|Yssgaroth's universe]] and closed them off with containment shells disguised as [[planet]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference - Book One]]'', ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') The Earth was one of these. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')


According to another account, Earth formed [[Distant past|circa 4.6 billion years]] [[BC]] around a [[Racnoss]] [[spacecraft]] which carried the last of their ancient race. The craft drew in surrounding asteroids and shaped them into a planetary body. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride (TV story)|The Runaway Bride]]'')
==MY NIG<i></i>GER ACTS LIKE A NIG<i></i>GER, BUT IS WHITE.==


Soon afterwards, the [[Eleventh Doctor]] arrived on a [[Tuesday]], in what he described as "6 billion years ago." At that time, the Earth was hot and [[Volcano|volcanic]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hide (TV story)|Hide]]'')
What you have there is a "wig<i></i>ger". Rough crowd.


Around 3 billion BC, the consciousness of the [[Sou(ou)shi]] settled on Earth and went into dormancy. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Venusian Lullaby (novel)|Venusian Lullaby]]'')
==IS THAT LIKE AN ALBINO? ARE THEY RARE?==
At much the same time, [[the Sentience (Nightshade)|the Sentience]] was also trapped in the forming Earth. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Nightshade (novel)|Nightshade]]'')


==== Creation of life ====
They're as common as dog shit and about as valuable. In fact, one of them was President between 1992 and 2000. Put your wigger in a cage with a few hundred genuine nig<i></i>gers and you'll soon find it stops acting like a nig<i></i>ger. However, leave it in the cage and let the nig<i></i>gers dispose of it. The best thing for any wigger is a dose of TNB.
Native life eventually developed due to the explosion of a [[Jagaroth]] spaceship circa 400 million BC, ([[TV]]: ''[[City of Death (TV story)|City of Death]]'') the experiments of the [[Archaeon]]s using red [[lightning]] to seed the Earth and turn it into an ordered "garden" circa 450 million BC, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Beginning (audio story)|The Beginning]]'') or both.


==== Dinosaurs, Silurians and Sea Devils ====
==MY NIG<i></i>GER SMELLS REALLY BAD.==
Various species of [[dinosaur|saurian]] creatures dominated the planet until circa 65 million BC when a freighter from [[2526]] time-warped to this period and exploded in the upper atmosphere. The resulting clouds of dirt and smoke obscured [[Sol|the Sun]], lowering the temperature and causing mass extinctions. ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'')


An intelligent species of [[reptile]]s flourished and then went extinct. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[All-Consuming Fire (novel)|All-Consuming Fire]]'') Reptilian [[Silurian]]s ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)|Doctor Who and the Silurians]]'') and [[Sea Devil]]s ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils (TV story)|The Sea Devils]]'') were also active and were the dominant species on Earth. During this time, the [[red leech]] also existed and was the Silurians' most virulent enemy. They were believed to have gone extinct during this period, but at least [[Sweet (The Crimson Horror)|one]] survived to the year [[1893]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Crimson Horror (TV story)|The Crimson Horror]]'')
And you were expecting what?


The reign of the Silurians and Sea Devils came to a final end when the small planet (later known as Earth's primary satellite, [[the Moon]]) entered Earth's orbit. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)|Doctor Who and the Silurians]]'') Some of the reptilian scientists, such as Dr [[Wolik]], calculated that the Moon would closely approach Earth, drawing off the atmosphere ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Cave-Monsters (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Cave-Monsters]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Twilight of the Silurians (comic story)|Twilight of the Silurians]]'') and destroying "all life". ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)|Doctor Who and the Silurians]]'') The [[Third Doctor]] repeated the claim to [[Marc Marshall]] that the Silurians built the shelters when they thought the planet would "suck away" Earth's atmosphere as it rushed by. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Scales of Injustice (novel)|The Scales of Injustice]]'') Conversely, the [[Fifth Doctor]] recalled that the Silurian astronomers predicted that Earth was about to be "struck" by the planet at the time, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Warriors of the Deep (novelisation)|Warriors of the Deep]]'') and the [[Eleventh Doctor]] described the trajectory of the planet the astronomers had predicted as a "crash course". ([[TV]]: ''[[Cold Blood (TV story)|Cold Blood]]'') The reptiles went into [[suspended animation]] until the atmosphere returned. Because the atmosphere never went away, they stayed in hibernation for millions of years. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)|Doctor Who and the Silurians]]'') Nonetheless, the effects of the Moon's arrival, while never completely pulling the atmosphere away, caused huge [[tidal wave]]s to sweep over its continents, [[volcano]]es to erupt, [[earthquake]]s bringing mountains down and [[cyclone]]s to rage across the planet. Millions of [[human]]ity's [[ape]] ancestors drowned or were blown into rocks by the winds, but some survived and multiplied. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Cave-Monsters (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Cave-Monsters]]'') During millions of years of hibernation, the reactivation machinery of the reptiles' [[hibernation unit]]s deteriorated. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils (TV story)|The Sea Devils]]'') One account implied that the Moon was already in orbit before intelligent life had developed, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Beginning (audio story)|The Beginning]]'') while another stated that it was an egg laid by an alien species around 100 million BC. ([[TV]]: ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'')
==WHERE SHOULD I STORE MY DEAD NIG<i></i>GER?==


Apes, regarded by the reptiles as pests, eventually evolved into the species known as humans, given a substantial jolt forward when the [[Fendahl]] Core arrived in [[Africa]] circa 12 million BC. ([[TV]]: ''[[Image of the Fendahl (TV story)|Image of the Fendahl]]'')
When you came in here, did you see a sign that said "Dead nig<i></i>ger storage"? That's because there ain't no goddamn sign.
 
=== Human age ===
==== The rise of human civilisation ====
Human civilisation evolved quickly, assisted (either accidentally or directly) by the [[Dæmon]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dæmons (TV story)|The Dæmons]]'') the various temporal fragments of [[Scaroth]], ([[TV]]: ''[[City of Death (TV story)|City of Death]]'') the predatory nature imparted to humans by the [[Fendahl]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Image of the Fendahl (TV story)|Image of the Fendahl]]'') and the occupation by [[the Silence]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'') Scaroth claimed responsibility for the inventions of fire and the wheel; ([[TV]]: ''[[City of Death (TV story)|City of Death]]'') the [[Silent]]s claimed they were on Earth since that point. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'') The [[Osiran]]s apparently had an influence on Earth around 5000 BC, inspiring many aspects of Ancient Egypt and imprisoning one of their number, [[Sutekh]], in Egypt. ([[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars (TV story)|Pyramids of Mars]]'') The [[Third Doctor]] said that the Dæmons helped ''Homo sapiens'' "kick out" [[Neanderthal]] man. He mentioned the [[Greek]] civilisation, the [[Renaissance]], the [[Industrial Revolution]], and various myths, gods and devils including [[Khnum]] and the Horned Beast as being inspired by the Dæmons. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dæmons (TV story)|The Dæmons]]'')
 
For "a half a million years", humanity systematically killed one another in conflicts. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') Human beings' predatory and aggressive nature was evident in the many conflicts which humans fought amongst themselves throughout much of their early history, such as during the siege of [[Troy]], the [[Dark Ages]] and the [[American War of Independence]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani (TV story)|The Mark of the Rani]]'') Other conflicts, including [[World War I]], the [[English Civil War]], the [[American Civil War]], the [[Mexican Civil War]], the [[Crimean War]], the [[Boer War]], the [[Russo-Japanese War]], the [[Thirty Years' War]] and the [[Peninsular War]] were also exploited by the [[War Lord]]s, who kidnapped human soldiers from these various conflicts in Earth history for use in their war games. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'')
 
==== 20th and 21st centuries ====
The [[First Doctor]]'s companion [[Vicki Pallister]], who was from the [[25th century]], did not consider early [[20th century]] Earth to be much more advanced than [[Rome]] in the [[1st century]]. [[Barbara Wright]] took offence at this remark. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Starborn (audio story)|Starborn]]'')
 
The conflicts known as the [[World War I|First]] and [[World War II|Second World Wars]] and the [[Cold War]] would be particularly significant in the 20th century. The development of [[nuclear weapon]]s increased international tensions in the late [[20th century]] even more. In the [[1980s]] nuclear war between the [[Soviet Union]] and the [[United States]] seemed imminent. ([[TV]]: ''[[Cold War (TV story)|Cold War]]'') This threat was somewhat alleviated when the great powers entrusted their nuclear launch codes to the United Kingdom for safe-keeping ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot (TV story)|Robot]]''), and again when the planet came under the rule of the [[World Zone Authority]] in the early [[21st century]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Enemy of the World (TV story)|The Enemy of the World]]'')
 
In [[July]] [[1969]], the [[Eleventh Doctor]] made the humans subconsciously turn against the [[Silent]]s and drove them off the planet, leaving behind their network of underground tunnels and several of their crafts. It was at this time that humans sent their first people on [[the Moon]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'') Scaroth was killed in [[1979]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[City of Death (TV story)|City of Death]]'')
 
The space race, partially inspired by the Silence, ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'') was of great significance: while Earth had been visited by aliens many times throughout its history, the launching of space probes made such visits more frequent, as ''Homo sapiens'' began drawing attention to themselves. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'') These visits also tended to be more openly hostile. Earth was saved from conquest or outright annihilation often only through the intercession of [[the Doctor]] or the secret (prior to the 21st century) organisation [[Torchwood Institute|Torchwood]]. An attack by the [[Great Intelligence]] would finally force the Earth's governments to agree on a unified response to aliens: the [[United Nations]] body known as [[UNIT]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Web of Fear (TV story)|The Web of Fear]]'', ''[[The Invasion (TV story)|The Invasion]]'') Despite this increase in invasions, a number of aliens that arrived were benevolent.
 
The governments of Earth, as well as the Doctor, UNIT, Torchwood, and (by the [[21st century]]) [[Sarah Jane Smith]] and her [[Ealing]] group, tried to keep these invasions a secret. UNIT was officially a counter-terrorist group and had several incidents explained as terrorism and accidents, though this caused political scandals throughout the 1970s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'') Torchwood used mind-wiping drugs to cover up some incidents, ([[TV]]: ''[[Everything Changes (TV story)|Everything Changes]]'') while Sarah Jane used her computer [[Mr Smith]] to deliberately falsify evidence and news reports. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Slitheen (TV story)|Revenge of the Slitheen]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') The [[Seventh Doctor]] would remark that these cover-ups were helped by the fact humans didn't ''want'' to notice, and were performing self-deception on themselves. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'')
 
In the early 21st century, starting with the [[Slitheen]] infiltration of [[10 Downing Street]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Aliens of London (TV story)|Aliens of London]]''), alien incidents became far more blatant. The governments and UNIT would have a random policy of alternately admitting that some aliens existed ([[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'', ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Coup (audio story)|The Coup]]'') and trying to desperately cover things up, such as claiming the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]] was because of terrorists planting drugs in water. ([[TV]]: ''[[Everything Changes (TV story)|Everything Changes]]'') Many humans acknowledged the aliens, while others tried to claim they were fake. ([[TV]]: ''[[Smith and Jones (TV story)|Smith and Jones]]'') However, several further events, most notably the forced relocation of Earth and a global Dalek assault ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]''/''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'') and the [[The 456|456]] crisis ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth]]'') served to finally convince the populace at large that humanity was not alone in the universe. Subsequent events, however, in particular the manifestation of the [[time field]], removed some of these events from the memories of many, if not all humans; ([[TV]]: ''[[Flesh and Stone (TV story)|Flesh and Stone]]'', ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'') the Doctor ultimately rebooted the universe and Earth's history. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'')
 
In [[2011]], Earth's political and social climate changed heavily following [[Miracle Day]], where the human race stopped dying as a result of a [[morphic field]] and yet continued to age. ([[TV]]: ''[[The New World (TV story)|The New World]]'', ''[[Rendition (TV story)|Rendition]]'') This ended when [[Jack Harkness]]' blood was fed into [[the Blessing]]'s antipodes. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Blood Line (TV story)|The Blood Line]]'') As a result, some countries like [[India]] and [[Pakistan]] reduced tensions with one another, while others like [[North Korea]] started mobilising troops and the legal definition and practical use of attempted [[murder]] and [[suicide]] were thrown into chaos. ([[TV]]: ''[[The New World (TV story)|The New World]]'', ''[[Rendition (TV story)|Rendition]]'', ''[[The Categories of Life (TV story)|The Categories of Life]]'', ''[[The Middle Men (TV story)|The Middle Men]]'') Various governments established the [[categories of life]], throwing category 1s and 2s into [[overflow camp]]s and incinerating category 1s inside [[Module]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Categories of Life (TV story)|The Categories of Life]]'') This quickly became public knowledge. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Middle Men (TV story)|The Middle Men]]'')
 
Around [[2018]], Earth had a population of 7 billion. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'', ''[[The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos (TV story)|The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos]]'', ''[[Resolution (TV story)|Resolution]]'')
 
From [[2019]] to at least [[2059]], Earth went through a period of chaos: [[climate change]], [[ozone]] degradation, the "[[oil apocalypse]]", the [[Great Cataclysm]], a [[Korven]] invasion ([[TV]]: ''[[The Waters of Mars (TV story)|The Waters of Mars]]'', ''[[The Eclipse of the Korven (TV story)|The Eclipse of the Korven]]'') and the increased weight of [[the Moon]] causing high [[tide]] everywhere all at once. ([[TV]]: ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'') Humanity faced [[extinction]], but not only survived; they achieved major advances in [[space travel]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Waters of Mars (TV story)|The Waters of Mars]]'') and developed [[Gravitron|weather control technology]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Moonbase (TV story)|The Moonbase]]'') In [[2058]], Earth's [[Bowie Base One|first colony]] on [[Mars]] was established by [[Adelaide Brooke]]; ([[TV]]: ''[[The Waters of Mars (TV story)|The Waters of Mars]]'') humanity would go on to create an [[T-Mat|early form]] of [[transmat]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Seeds of Death (TV story)|The Seeds of Death]]'') and [[lightspeed travel]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Waters of Mars (TV story)|The Waters of Mars]]'') To cope with the depleted [[oil]] supply, humans began drilling off world, taking oil from other planets. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Infinite Quest (TV story)|The Infinite Quest]]'')
 
In late 21st century, the [[United States of America]] and [[Eurozone]] began showing hostilities to each other ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Trading Futures (novel)|Trading Futures]]'') and by [[2084]], there were again two vast power blocs in conflict and the threat of nuclear war. ([[TV]]: ''[[Warriors of the Deep (TV story)|Warriors of the Deep]]'') According to one account, the tensions between the competing blocs ended with the [[Ice Warrior|Martian]] assault of [[2086]], when [[Paris]] was destroyed. A [[Thousand Day War]] against a common alien enemy united humans and planted the seeds for a united Earth. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Transit (novel)|Transit]]'') However, a different account showed that all of the Martians were either destroyed after — in the words of [[Harold (Deimos)|Harold]] — "something to do with [[T-Mat]] on the Moon" or were inactive and in [[suspended animation]] on [[Deimos]] and in the [[Sol system]]'s [[asteroid belt]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Deimos (audio story)|Deimos]]'')
 
However, other accounts differed on this, stating that, among other things, Mars was entirely populated by human colonists by the [[23rd century]], with the native [[Martian]]s, the [[Ice Warrior]]s, already becoming — in the words of Ice Warrior expert, Professor [[Boston Schooner|Schooner]] — "extinct for hundreds of years", when, according to what [[Gregson Grenville]] had learnt from school, "they were all melted when their invasion fleet spiralled into the sun".
 
This account showed extant Ice Warriors, but all were in [[suspended animation]] for — according to the [[Eighth Doctor]] — "many millions of years" at the time both the destruction of the fleet and the Thousand Year War were purported to have happened. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Deimos (audio story)|Deimos]]'')
 
==== Humanity travels to the stars ====
In [[2089]], Earth made its first interstellar flight which was flown by [[Susie Fontana Brooke]] and it led her to [[Proxima Centauri]]. In [[2095]] a full-scale [[human]] colonisation of [[Mars]] began to be colonised for the wealthy minority humans. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Beige Planet Mars (novel)|Beige Planet Mars]]'') [[2099|Four years later]], the governments of Earth, in answer to [[global warming]], had taken vast sections of the [[Arctic]] and [[Antarctica|Antarctic]] and placed them inside huge domes called [[Snowglobe]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Snowglobe 7 (novel)|Snowglobe 7]]'')
 
In [[2151]], Earth went through a [[bee]] invasion. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Secret in Vault 13 (novel)|The Secret in Vault 13]]'')
 
In the [[22nd century]], Earth suffered the rise of large corporations which would occasionally wage active war against each other, energy crises and the collapse of the [[tourist]] trade. In [[2156]], [[Earth Central]] declared bankruptcy and the corporations (under the [[Earth Alliance of Corporations]]) took control of the planet. Despite this, Earth's colonisation of the galaxy continued to advance. The [[Guild of Adjudicators|Adjudicators]] were established to enforce Earth law on the colonies. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lucifer Rising (novel)|Lucifer Rising]]'')
 
==== 22nd century Dalek invasion ====
The [[22nd century Dalek invasion]] proved devastating to Earth. First, the Daleks wiped out fifteen colonies; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lucifer Rising (novel)|Lucifer Rising]]'') next, they released a plague across the Earth. Over a six-month period, [[Africa]], [[Asia]] and [[South America]] were almost wiped out; humanity was barely able to resist when the Daleks arrived. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'') [[New York City]] and many other cities were destroyed. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]'') For ten years, the remaining inhabitants of Earth were terrorised by the Dalek forces, who enslaved many and turned others into [[Robomen]], while the Daleks attempted to turn Earth into a mobile dreadnought. Only a handful of resistance groups existed.
 
Following the defeat of their grand scheme ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'') and the shattering of their solar system blockade in the [[Battle of Cassius]], the Daleks left Earth. The planet remained divided into feudal kingdoms for a time, as Earth refused assistance from the colonies; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy of the Daleks (novel)|Legacy of the Daleks]]'') large conglomerates, however, stepped in to rebuild the [[Terran Security Forces]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Final Sanction (novel)|The Final Sanction]]'') The invasion killed about two-thirds of Earth's population. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[An Earthly Child (audio story)|An Earthly Child]]'') Thirty years after the invasion, the [[Earth Council]] existed as a fledgling government, but anti-alien organisations like [[Earth United]] began to attract many youths to their cause. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[An Earthly Child (audio story)|An Earthly Child]]'') Earth was finally rebuilt when other ships from other human colonies arrived to offer their aid. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Janus Conjunction (novel)|The Janus Conjunction]]'') The Daleks, during the 2190s, invaded Earth again under the Leadership of the [[Dalek Time Controller]], after the renegade Time Lord [[the Monk]] spread another virus. They dug up much of North America, hoping this time to move Earth through time and space for the viruses from the [[Amethyst Viral Containment Station]], turning Earth into a plague planet. This plan was averted when [[Lucie Miller]] crashed a Dalek Saucer into the mines at the cost of her life. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Lucie Miller (audio story)|Lucie Miller]]''/''[[To the Death (audio story)|To the Death]]'')
 
==== Earth empires ====
By the [[23rd century]], Earth had recovered and a major "break-out" of colonisation took place. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Romance of Crime (novel)|The Romance of Crime]]'') In time the planet formed a unified government and an [[Earth Empire]] emerged. This dominated most of Mutter's Spiral for over 500 years. This empire at times came into military conflict with other space powers, particularly the [[Draconian]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'') [[Cybermen]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'') and the [[Korven]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Korven (TV story)|The Korven]]'') It often employed oppressive and disenfranchising policies on the indigenous inhabitants of its colonies. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Power of Kroll (TV story)|The Power of Kroll]]'', ''[[The Mutants (TV story)|The Mutants]]'') Alongside Draconia, Earth would fight and win the [[Second Dalek War]]. Before the war, Earth and the Empire was overseen by a [[President of Earth|president]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'') but from the late 26th century it was ruled by a [[Divine Empress]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'')
 
Unrest among the subjugated alien races, instabilities in the Empire's political and economic structure, and ecological damage to Earth eventually led to the dissolution of the Empire, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mutants (TV story)|The Mutants]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Sorcerer's Apprentice (novel)|The Sorcerer's Apprentice]]'') which in time gave way to the [[Galactic Federation]], headquartered on [[Io]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy (novel)|Legacy]]'')
 
By the [[28th century]], Earth was commonly referred to as "Old Earth" by the inhabitants of its colonies such as [[Nocturne (planet)|Nocturne]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Nocturne (audio story)|Nocturne]]'')
 
In the [[29th century]], Earth's environment was largely destroyed by solar flares. Humanity fled the planet on giant spaceships, returning when the solar flares stabilised. Autonomous nations returned during the crisis, as countries like the [[United Kingdom]] constructed their own, specific [[Starship UK|refuge ships]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Beast Below (TV story)|The Beast Below]]'')
 
According to one account, humanity was still travelling on refuge ships by the [[33rd century]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Beast Below (TV story)|The Beast Below]]'') According to another account, the [[Kustollon]] [[Igrix]] recalled that in [[3046]], the Kustollons of [[Kustollia]] fought the humans of Earth in an "enormous, terrible battle" over disputed territories in the [[Perseus arm]]. The humans won using a [[virus]] developed from [[Peter Cobb|Peter]] and [[Charlotte Cobb]]'s research which disabled the Kustollons' [[biotechnology]]. According to the [[Ninth Doctor]], Earth had collapsed and took centuries to recover from [[famine]], [[plague]] and misery. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Love Invasion (comic story)|The Love Invasion]]'')
 
In the late [[40th century]], Earth was among the "[[Big Four]]" powers in an alliance against the [[Dalek]] invasions, when it was decided to found the [[Space Security Service]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Outlaw Planet (short story)|The Outlaw Planet]]'')
 
By [[4000]], Earth and its dominions were ruled by a [[Guardian of the Solar System]], with the [[Space Security Service]] handling military intelligence. Following the death of the incumbent Guardian, [[Mavic Chen]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)|The Daleks' Master Plan]]'') however, his descendants brought down the Galactic Federation's democracy ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crystal Bucephalus (novel)|The Crystal Bucephalus]]'') and the Earth-ruled [[Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire]] took its place. During this time the enslavement of the [[Ood]] as a servant class occurred. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Ood (TV story)|Planet of the Ood]]'') The Empire was succeeded by the [[Earth Alliance]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Invasion of the Daleks (audio story)|Invasion of the Daleks]]'') However, a brutal Dalek invasion ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dalek Empire I]]'') saw Earth conquered and occupied by Daleks once again and would result in the [[Great Catastrophe (The Exterminators)|Great Catastrophe]] that devastated Earth and its colonies. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dalek Empire II]]'')
 
In the [[45th century]], Earth became uninhabitable. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Plague of the Daleks (audio story)|Plague of the Daleks]]'')
 
Earth recovered yet again, forming advanced [[Icelandic Alliance|national]] [[Supreme Alliance|alliances]] before a new [[Ice Age]] and [[World War VI]] struck it in the [[51st century]]. However, it still triggered the [[Great Breakout]] of space colonisation and created the [[Time Agency]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]'', ''[[The Invisible Enemy (TV story)|The Invisible Enemy]]'')
 
=== Later events ===
Earth, in its later history, was abandoned numerous times by its human inhabitants, first in [[6087]] when [[solar flare]]s bombarded the planet, leaving Earth uninhabited for 10,000 years. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ark in Space (TV story)|The Ark in Space]]'') The population of Earth was evacuated in vast starships, while a small number of people were left behind aboard [[Nerva Beacon]] to begin the repopulation of the planet once conditions on the surface were suitable for life. Humans elsewhere carried on with [[Expansion|another period of colonial expansion]] under [[GalSec]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ark in Space (TV story)|The Ark in Space]]'', ''[[The Sontaran Experiment (TV story)|The Sontaran Experiment]]'') While Earth was uninhabited and damaged, it was occupied by the [[Charrl]], who renamed the world Antýkhon. Humans who had survived the flares, referred to as "Hairies", had mutated to adapt to the depleted atmosphere and soil caused by the Charrls' industrial activities. The Charrl occupation lasted some 3,497 years. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Birthright (novel)|Birthright]]'') Nerva Beacon's evacuees returned to Earth after ten thousand years had passed. They recolonised the planet. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ark in Space (TV story)|The Ark in Space]]'')
 
According to one account, by the year [[37166|37,166]], Earth had been abandoned "since the start of the third era". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Planet of Evil (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Planet of Evil]]'')
 
Some time after, Earth was visited by the [[Usurian]]s, who relocated the dying human population first to [[Mars]] and then [[Pluto]]. Generations later, humans had thrown off the yoke of Usurian exploitation and returned to Earth. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sun Makers (TV story)|The Sun Makers]]'')
 
By the year [[200000|200,000]], Earth was at its height, covered with megacities and a population of 96 billion. It was the centre of the galactic domain of the [[Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire]] that stretched across a million planets and species. The Empire had been secretly manipulated and its progress hindered by Dalek survivors of the [[Last Great Time War]], who allowed an alien known as the [[Jagrafess]] and his consort, [[the Editor]], control over the planet until they were caught and overthrown. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Long Game (TV story)|The Long Game]]'', ''[[Bad Wolf (TV story)|Bad Wolf]]'', ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'') Earth underwent a century of social collapse and pollution before a full-scale invasion commenced in [[200100|200,100]], including a bombing campaign which disfigured the continents. The Dalek fleet was destroyed by the [[Bad Wolf (entity)|Bad Wolf entity]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'')
 
[[File:Ravalox.jpg|thumb|left|Earth as Ravolox. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mysterious Planet (TV story)|The Mysterious Planet]]'')]]
About the year [[2000000|2,000,000]], Earth was relocated two light-years from its proper position by the [[Time Lord]]s to prevent the escape of aliens from [[Andromeda (constellation)|the constellation of Andromeda]] who had stolen information from [[the Matrix]] on [[Gallifrey]]. Most of the humans remaining on Earth were wiped out. Those that survived degenerated to a primitive, tribal culture. The planet came to be known as Ravolox, with Earth being completely forgotten. The inhabitants of Ravolox eventually came to know of the true nature and history of their planet and to rebuild their civilisation. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mysterious Planet (TV story)|The Mysterious Planet]]'') The prophecy of the [[Yarven|Vampire Messiah]] also used the name Ravolox for Earth. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Goth Opera (novel)|Goth Opera]]'').
 
At some point, the planet was known by the name Tellus and was owned entirely by the mining company, [[Tellac Inc.]] During this period, the president of the company was the political leader of the planet as well. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[K9 and the Missing Planet (novel)|K9 and the Missing Planet]]'')
 
At some point in the [[far future]], Earth was a dead planet, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Voyage to Venus (audio story)|Voyage to Venus]]'') destroyed and "laid barren by wanton waste and foolhardy destruction". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallery (short story)|The Gallery]]'')
 
=== Earth's destruction ===
[[File:Earth Destroyed1.jpg|thumb|left|Earth is destroyed for perhaps the first time. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ark (TV story)|The Ark]]'')]]
In the 57th [[segment of Time]], the last humans left Earth because of the increasing danger that it would fall into the [[Sol|Sun]], fleeing to [[planet]]s such as [[Refusis II]] and [[Frontios]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ark (TV story)|The Ark]]'', ''[[Frontios (TV story)|Frontios]]'') This destruction of Earth was dated circa [[10000000|10,000,000]] by ''[[The Book of the War]]'' and ''[[The Human Species: A Spotter's Guide]]'' ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'', ''[[Of the City of the Saved... (novel)|Of the City of the Saved...]]'') and circa [[12000000|12,000,000]] by some future historians. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Brakespeare Voyage (novel)|The Brakespeare Voyage]]'') In Earth's absence, humanity was deprived of a common cultural reference point and the [[posthuman]] era began. The posthuman [[Arcadian]] movement recreated Earth on 28,000 Earth-like displays, of which many were called "[[New Earth]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')
 
[[File:Earthdeath.jpg|thumb|right|Earth meets its demise when the Sun engulfs it. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of the World (TV story)|The End of the World]]'')]]
Other accounts indicate Earth still existed billions of years later, by which time the Sun had exhausted its hydrogen supply and turned into a red giant. It was restored to a "classic" Earth by the [[National Trust]]. As the Sun grew, the National Trust financed technology to keep its expansion held back so it would not engulf the Earth. However, funding for the preservation project eventually ran out and the National trust withdrew its protection. Earth was [[Earth Death|finally destroyed by the expanding Sun]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of the World (TV story)|The End of the World]]'') in the year [[5000000000|5,000,000,000]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[New Earth (TV story)|New Earth]]'') However, at some point, humanity had settled on a planet called [[New Earth (New Earth)|New Earth]], which had a similar size, orbit, and atmosphere to Earth. According to one account, humanity had relocated to New Earth long before the destruction of Earth. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Agent Provocateur (comic story)|Agent Provocateur]]'') According to another account, the [[Tenth Doctor]] said that in 5,000,000,000, "as soon as the Earth burn[t] up", the human race, who at this point were "spread out across the stars", got nostalgic and then ''found'' New Earth after forming a big revival movement. ([[TV]]: ''[[New Earth (TV story)|New Earth]]'') Humanity outlived their original homeworld for tens of trillions of years, up until the [[end of the universe]] itself ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'', ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'') and [[City of the Saved|beyond]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Of the City of the Saved... (novel)|Of the City of the Saved...]]'', et al.)
 
According to yet another account, the end of the world saw a malevolent government hunting down all survivors of humanity, with cities such as [[London]] becoming derelict and overrun with vegetation, while [[Sol]] slowly imploded in a way that was visible from the Earth and did not immediately destroy the planet. The last two survivors not belonging to the government were [[Lucy Wilson]] and [[Hobo Kostinen]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Assessment Day (short story)|Assessment Day]]'')
 
== Alternate timelines ==
Earth experienced various [[alternate timeline]]s.
 
In one timeline, the [[Dalek]]s found the [[Eye of Time]], invaded Earth in 1963 and wiped out humanity. This timeline was averted by the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[Amy Pond]], by preventing the Daleks from resurrecting their [[Dalek Emperor (City of the Daleks)|Emperor]] along with the rest of Skaro and launching the attack in the first place. ([[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'')
 
On one occasion, guerilla fighters from an alternate timeline of 22nd century Earth attempted to prevent their own future and instead caused it. [[Shura]] bombed [[Auderly House]] where Sir [[Reginald Styles]] was holding the second [[World Peace Conference]], vital to preventing [[World War III]]. As a result, many world leaders were killed and a series of wars devastated the planet, killing seven-eighths of the population. By the 22nd century, the Earth was under the rule of the [[Dalek]]s. After travelling to this future, the [[Third Doctor]] and [[Jo Grant]] pieced together what had actually happened to cause the future which had previously been blamed upon Styles. After being informed of the truth, Shura sacrificed himself to blow up a Dalek attack force once Auderly House was emptied, changing the future. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Daleks (TV story)|Day of the Daleks]]'')
 
On another occasion, the release of Sutekh in [[1911]] meant that by [[1980]] the Earth would become a desolate planet circling a dead sun. The [[Fourth Doctor]] showed this to [[Sarah Jane Smith]], and by causing Sutekh to age to death before he could escape, this timeline was averted. ([[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars (TV story)|Pyramids of Mars]]'')
 
In another alternate timeline created by the [[Great Old One|Elder Gods]] in the hope of destroying Earth, [[Vladimir Kryuchkov]] became the [[General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] instead of [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] in [[1985]]. On [[9 November]] [[1989]], World War III broke out between the [[United States of America|United States]] and its allies including the [[United Kingdom]] on the one hand and the [[Soviet Union]] on the other hand. Given that [[nuclear weapon]]s were used by both sides, hundreds of millions of people were killed in the conflict. This timeline was ultimately negated by the [[Seventh Doctor]] except for in a [[pocket universe]] where the Doctor trapped the two Elder Gods responsible and, accidentally, his companions [[Ace]] and [[Hex]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Protect and Survive (audio story)|Protect and Survive]]'')
 
In an alternate timeline, the Earth was a polluted world covered in a chemical slime. From this world sprang the [[haemovore]]s with the [[Ancient One]] being the last by the year [[500000|500,000]]. After [[Fenric]] brought the Ancient One to [[1943]] Earth, he attempted to get the Ancient One to fill the oceans with poison which would create this future. The [[Seventh Doctor]] convinced the Ancient One of the truth and it sacrificed itself to defeat Fenric and change its future. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenric (TV story)|The Curse of Fenric]]'')
 
{{Roberts|c}} opening the [[Eye of Harmony]] from [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] in [[San Francisco]] on 31 December 1999 led to Earth being sucked into the Eye at midnight. However, when [[Grace Holloway]] helped the [[Eighth Doctor]] put the TARDIS into a [[temporal orbit]], this timeline was averted. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
 
After becoming [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]], the {{Simm|n=Harold Saxon}} incarnation of [[the Master]] orchestrated the [[Toclafane invasion]], decimating the human population of the Earth and putting the planet under his rule to use as a stepping stone to take over the universe. Within a year, the Earth was quarantined by the rest of the universe as going through "terminal extinction." After the defeat of the Master thanks to the efforts of [[Martha Jones]], Captain [[Jack Harkness]] and the [[Tenth Doctor]], this timeline was reverted and became known as [[The Year That Never Was]]. Only those on the ''[[Valiant (aircraft carrier)|Valiant]]'' when time was reversed would ever know of these events. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'', ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'')
 
When a member of the [[Trickster's Brigade]] made [[Donna Noble]] change a seemingly small decision in her life, it resulted in an [[Donna's World|alternate timeline]] where the Doctor had died on Christmas, 2007. Because of this, many deaths occurred that he would have otherwise stopped. These deaths included most of the population of London when a [[Titanic (spaceship)|spaceship replica of the Titanic]] crashed into the city. The timeline was put back to rights after [[Rose Tyler]], with the help of UNIT, sent Donna back in time to ensure she made the decision to turn left instead of right and take a job at [[H.C. Clements]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left (TV story)|Turn Left]]'')
 
The [[Kovarian Chapter]] of [[the Silence]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') exploding the TARDIS in 2010 led to the [[Total event collapse|collapse of the universe]], with Earth's history being barely held together by the TARDIS as it exploded throughout history. The Doctor was able to [[Big Bang Two|reboot]] the universe by flying the [[Pandorica]] into the exploding TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'' / ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'')
 
When [[River Song]] refused to shoot the Eleventh Doctor at [[Lake Silencio]] on 22 April 2011, a [[fixed point in time]], [[River Song's World|time collapsed]], creating a timeline where all of history was happening at once. The Doctor revealed to River he was really miniaturised and hiding inside an android replica of himself, causing her to perform the shooting and abort this timeline. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of River Song (TV story)|The Wedding of River Song]]'')
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== Culture ==
Human culture was highly diverse. Natives of the Earth used a wide variety of languages, including [[Latin]], ([[TV]]: [[The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)|The Fires of Pompeii]]) [[Greek language|Greek]] and [[Hebrew]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Byzantium! (novel)|Byzantium!]]'') in the ancient times and [[English language|English]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Two Doctors (TV story)|The Two Doctors]]'') [[Mandarin]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day One (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day One]]'') and [[Russian language|Russian]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Cold War (TV story)|Cold War]]'') in the 20th and 21st centuries. Some of the Earth languages were later used on other worlds too, for example Hebrew was spoken on the human colony of [[Ha'olam]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dreamstone Moon (novel)|Dreamstone Moon]]'')
 
The Earth was home to many influential human artists, such as [[Leonardo da Vinci]] ([[TV]]: ''[[City of Death (TV story)|City of Death]]'') and [[Vincent van Gogh]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Vincent and the Doctor (TV story)|Vincent and the Doctor]]'') Influential Earth [[music]]ians included [[Ludwig van Beethoven]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Gone Too Soon (short story)|Gone Too Soon]]'') [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[My Own Private Wolfgang (audio story)|My Own Private Wolfgang]]'') and [[the Beatles]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[1963: Fanfare for the Common Men (audio story)|1963: Fanfare for the Common Men]]'')
 
=== Religions ===
Diverse [[god|deities]] were worshipped on the planet. The ancient [[Roman]]s worshipped several [[god]]s, including [[Vulcan (god)|Vulcan]] and [[Venus (god)|Venus]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)|The Fires of Pompeii]]'') Some Earth deities were in fact advanced beings from outer space, like the [[Osiran]]s and [[Olympian]]s worshipped by the Egyptians and Greeks respectively. Eventually however, these cults started to lose their influence because of the spread of Christianity. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Byzantium! (novel)|Byzantium!]]'')
 
Without specifying the species, the [[Tenth Doctor]] said that Earth, like a million other worlds "right across the universe", had "the representation of the horned beast" in its myths and legends. [[The Beast (The Impossible Planet)|The Beast]] claimed to be this "devil", along with all of the others in every [[religion]] which had such a figure. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Satan Pit (TV story)|The Satan Pit]]'')
 
== Politics ==
In its early period, the Earth lacked a united planetary government, being organised into nation-states instead. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)|The Sontaran Stratagem]]'') Many of those societies were ruled by [[king]]s, like [[Ur]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]''), [[Macedon]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mask of Tragedy (audio story)|Mask of Tragedy]]'') of the ancient era, [[France]] in the [[18th century]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)|The Girl in the Fireplace]]'') and [[England]] well into the [[21st century|21st]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Revenge of the Judoon (novel)|Revenge of the Judoon]]'') Other forms of government, like that of the [[United States of America]], which was led by a President, were however by no means unknown. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Eye of the Scorpion (audio story)|The Eye of the Scorpion]]'')
 
Earth was finally unified into a world state after the [[Thousand Day War]] against the [[Ice Warrior]]s in the late 21st century. A brief relapse into warring feudal states followed the [[Dalek]] occupation before the Earth was again united. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy of the Daleks (novel)|Legacy of the Daleks]]'') It was also around this time that Earth formed the [[Alliance (Original Sin)|Alliance]] with [[Alpha Centauri (planet)|Alpha Centauri]] and other nearby systems, its first formal alliance with alien species. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Original Sin (novel)|Original Sin]]'', ''[[Lords of the Storm (novel)|Lords of the Storm]]'')
 
The United Earth government quickly became corrupt and on the payroll of powerful financial concerns like [[INITEC]], the [[Galatron Mining Corporation]], the [[Amorb|AMORB Project]] and especially [[IMC]], looking the other way as these organisations victimised indigenous species and human colonists alike on the outer worlds. ([[TV]]: ''[[Vengeance on Varos (TV story)|Vengeance on Varos]]'', ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]'') In time the business policies of these corporations and the political and diplomatic policies of the Earth government became parallel and laid the foundations for the [[Earth Empire]]. Law and order was enforced by the [[Adjudicator]]s. Although Earth was governed by a democratically elected leader, civil liberties in the mid-third millennium were marginalized and critics of the government were frequently sent to [[the Moon]], which was converted from a civilian colony to a prison. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'') In the last centuries of the third millennium, the Republic became an Imperial monarchy, with the Holy King (or Queen) ruling Earth and its empire. The last Holy Monarch left control of the Earth to a ruling council upon her death, shortly before the [[Solos]] Incident. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Original Sin (novel)|Original Sin]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Mutants (TV story)|The Mutants]]'')
 
With the advent of the [[Second Ice Age]] and continuing unrest among the colonies, Earth's government collapsed at the turn of the fourth millennium. [[Feudalism]] returned on the planet and on many of its colonies. An aristocratic government remained in control of Earth when the [[Galactic Federation]] was formed in the later years of the millennium. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Peladon (TV story)|The Curse of Peladon]]'') This aristocracy gradually gave way to more democratic forms, but this new era of freedom was short-lived as the [[Solar System]] came under the sway of the [[Chen Dynasty]] after [[4000]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)|The Daleks' Master Plan]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crystal Bucephalus (novel)|The Crystal Bucephalus]]'')
 
By [[4126]], Earth was the centre of the [[Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire]], a vast and powerful tri-galactic power. [[Ood]] [[slavery]] was common and accepted during this period. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Ood (TV story)|Planet of the Ood]]'') A few hundred years after the [[36th century]], however, it had been replaced by the [[Earth Alliance]], a powerful Earth-centred bloc. This was the main power fighting another Dalek invasion of the galaxy, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Invasion of the Daleks (audio story)|Invasion of the Daleks]]'') though Earth ''itself'' was conquered for much of the war. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dalek War: Chapter One (audio story)|Dalek War: Chapter One]]'') When it was liberated, it became a victim of the Great Catastrophe. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dalek War: Chapter Four (audio story)|Dalek War: Chapter Four]]'')
 
After this, the nations of the Earth became completely independent once more. A [[World War VI|Sixth World War]] loomed by the year [[5000]] between the superpowers of the [[Icelandic Alliance]] and [[Supreme Alliance]]. This ended with the Supreme Alliance victorious and [[Iceland]] occupied. Other important nations at the time included the [[Australia|Commonwealth of Australia]], which itself was occupied and the [[Philippines]], which liberated Iceland and defeated the Supreme Alliance. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]'') At the same time, Earth was responsible for [[Great Breakout|a new period]] of space exploration and colonisation. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invisible Enemy (TV story)|The Invisible Enemy]]'')
 
By the [[100th century]], the Earth was facing civil wars and by the [[102nd century]] it was reformed into the [[Junta]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Synthespians™ (novel)|Synthespians™]]'')
 
Information on what forms of government existed on Earth during its later periods was scant, owing to the frequent evacuations and resettlements by humanity which occurred. During Earth's period as the planet Ravolox, the few surviving humans there appeared to live in a tribal matriarchy somewhat similar to that of the ancient [[Celt]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mysterious Planet (TV story)|The Mysterious Planet]]'')
 
== Economy ==
Variations of [[capitalism]] and [[communism]] were practised by Earth [[human]]s in the [[20th century]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[History 101 (novel)|History 101]]'')
 
From the [[20th century|20th]] to at least the [[40th century|40th centuries]], much of Earth's economy was dependent on [[oil]], a non-renewable resource, much to the annoyance of the [[Fourth Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Zygons (TV story)|Terror of the Zygons]]'', ''[[The Infinite Quest (TV story)|The Infinite Quest]]'')
 
In [[2008]], the Earth entered a recession. [[2011|Three years later]], the Earth's economy spiralled further following [[Miracle Day|the Miracle]], leaving [[Ireland]] and [[Greece]] bankrupt. ([[TV]]: ''[[End of the Road (TV story)|End of the Road]]'', ''[[The Gathering (TV story)|The Gathering]]'')
 
Towards the end of Earth's history, [[Forest of Cheem|trees]] which traced their ancestry to the tropical rainforests had acquired sizeable fortunes, mostly in real estate. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of the World (TV story)|The End of the World]]'')
 
=== Place in the universe ===
The [[First Doctor]] was unfamiliar with Earth prior to his departure on [[Gallifrey]]. However, his granddaughter [[Susan Foreman]] had learned of its existence and that of the solar system in her spatial cartography lessons. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Beginning (audio story)|The Beginning]]'')
 
Earth was the target for many [[alien invasion]]s. The conquest of the planet was often for one of three reasons:
* The need for resources {{facts}}
* The expansion of empires
* The replacement of a homeworld
 
The [[Sontaran invasion of Earth]], as well as a previous claim to the planet, was motivated by the actions of the [[Rutan-Sontaran War]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)|The Sontaran Stratagem]]''/''[[The Poison Sky (TV story)|The Poison Sky]]'', ''[[The Time Warrior (TV story)|The Time Warrior]]'') The [[Nimon]] sought control of Earth due to its position in space allowing for multiple expansions in their [[Great Journey of Life]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Seasons of Fear (audio story)|Seasons of Fear]]'')
 
There were invasions more subtle than a direct military action. Sometime before [[2050]], a [[Korven]] known as [[Lomax (The Bounty Hunter)|Lomax]] hijacked the [[British government]] and ruled over Great Britain. He also used the British government to gain control of many other parts of the world. Those under the British Government's control lived under a corrupt, totalitarian regime. Lomax and his subordinates were killed during their invasion attempt. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eclipse of the Korven (TV story)|The Eclipse of the Korven]]'')
 
Species that planned on turning Earth into their "New..." planets included the [[Zygon]]s ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Zygons (TV story)|Terror of the Zygons]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Sting of the Zygons (novel)|Sting of the Zygons]]''), the [[Cybermen]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Silver Nemesis (TV story)|Silver Nemesis]]''), the [[Nestene Consciousness]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]''), the [[Dalek]]s ([[TV]]: ''[[Evolution of the Daleks (TV story)|Evolution of the Daleks]]''), the [[Pyrovile]]s ([[TV]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)|The Fires of Pompeii]]'') and the [[Saturnyn]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice (TV story)|The Vampires of Venice]]'')
 
== Behind the scenes ==
* The first shot of the first scene of ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'' (the first story following ''[[Doctor Who]]'''s extended hiatus) featured a dramatic zoom from Earth orbit into [[Rose Tyler]]'s apartment. A number of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' stories have since opened with this same dramatic zoom, including ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'', ''[[The Runaway Bride (TV story)|The Runaway Bride]],'' ''[[Smith and Jones (TV story)|Smith and Jones]]'' and ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]''.
 
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INSTALL YOUR NIGGER.

You should install your nigger differently according to whether you have purchased the field or house model. Field niggers work best in a serial configuration, i.e. chained together. Chain your nigger to another nigger immediately after unpacking it, and don't even think about taking that chain off, ever. Many niggers start singing as soon as you put a chain on them. This habit can usually be thrashed out of them if nipped in the bud. House niggers work best as standalone units, but should be hobbled or hamstrung to prevent attempts at escape. At this stage, your nigger can also be given a name. Most owners use the same names over and over, since niggers become confused by too much data. Rufus, Rastus, Remus, Toby, Carslisle, Carlton, Hey-You!-Yes-you!, Yeller, Blackstar, and Sambo are all effective names for your new buck nigger. If your nigger is a ho, it should be called Latrelle, L'Tanya, or Jemima. Some owners call their nigger hoes Latrine for a joke. Pearl, Blossom, and Ivory are also righteous names for nigger hoes. These names go straight over your nigger's head, by the way.

CONFIGURE YOUR NIGGER.

Owing to a design error, your nigger comes equipped with a tongue and vocal chords. Most niggers can master only a few basic human phrases with this apparatus - "muh dick" being the most popular. However, others make barking, yelping, yapping noises and appear to be in some pain, so you should probably call a vet and have him remove your nigger's tongue. Once de-tongued your nigger will be a lot happier - at least, you won't hear it complaining anywhere near as much. Niggers have nothing interesting to say, anyway. Many owners also castrate their niggers for health reasons (yours, mine, and that of women, not the nigger's). This is strongly recommended, and frankly, it's a mystery why this is not done on the boat.

HOUSE YOUR NIGGER.

Your nigger can be accommodated in cages with stout iron bars. Make sure, however, that the bars are wide enough to push pieces of nigger food through. The rule of thumb is, four niggers per square yard of cage. So a fifteen foot by thirty foot nigger cage can accommodate two hundred niggers. You can site a nigger cage anywhere, even on soft ground. Don't worry about your nigger fashioning makeshift shovels out of odd pieces of wood and digging an escape tunnel under the bars of the cage. Niggers never invented the shovel before and they're not about to now. In any case, your nigger is certainly too lazy to attempt escape. As long as the free food holds out, your nigger is living better than it did in Africa, so it will stay put. Buck niggers and hoe niggers can be safely accommodated in the same cage, as bucks never attempt sex with black hoes.

FEED YOUR NIGGER.

Your Nigger likes fried chicken, corn bread, and watermelon. You should therefore give it none of these things because its lazy ass almost certainly doesn't deserve it. Instead, feed it on porridge with salt, and creek water. Your nigger will supplement its diet with whatever it finds in the fields, other niggers, etc. Experienced nigger owners sometimes push watermelon slices through the bars of the nigger cage at the end of the day as a treat, but only if all niggers have worked well and nothing has been stolen that day. Mike of the Old Ranch Plantation reports that this last one is a killer, since all niggers steal something almost every single day of their lives. He reports he doesn't have to spend much on free watermelon for his niggers as a result. You should never allow your nigger meal breaks while at work, since if it stops work for more than ten minutes it will need to be retrained. You would be surprised how long it takes to teach a nigger to pick cotton. You really would. Coffee beans? Don't ask. You have no idea.

ENTERTAIN YOUR NIGGER.

Your nigger enjoys play, like most animals, so you should play with it regularly. A happy smiling nigger works best. Games niggers enjoy include: 1) A good thrashing: every few days, take your nigger's pants down, hang it up by its heels, and have some of your other niggers thrash it with a club or whip. Your nigger will signal its intense enjoyment by shrieking and sobbing. 2) Lynch the nigger: niggers are cheap and there are millions more where yours came from. So every now and then, push the boat out a bit and lynch a nigger.

Lynchings are best done with a rope over the branch of a tree, and niggers just love to be lynched. It makes them feel special. Make your other niggers watch. They'll be so grateful, they'll work harder for a day or two (and then you can lynch another one). 3) Nigger dragging: Tie your nigger by one wrist to the tow bar on the back of suitable vehicle, then drive away at approximately 50mph. Your nigger's shrieks of enjoyment will be heard for miles. It will shriek until it falls apart. To prolong the fun for the nigger, do NOT drag him by his feet, as his head comes off too soon. This is painless for the nigger, but spoils the fun. Always wear a seatbelt and never exceed the speed limit. 4) Playing on the PNL: a variation on (2), except you can lynch your nigger out in the fields, thus saving work time. Niggers enjoy this game best if the PNL is operated by a man in a tall white hood. 5) Hunt the nigger: a variation of Hunt the Slipper, but played outdoors, with Dobermans. WARNING: do not let your Dobermans bite a nigger, as they are highly toxic.

DISPOSAL OF DEAD NIGGERS.

Niggers die on average at around 40, which some might say is 40 years too late, but there you go. Most people prefer their niggers dead, in fact. When yours dies, report the license number of the car that did the drive-by shooting of your nigger. The police will collect the nigger and dispose of it for you.

MY NIGGER BITCHES ABOUT ITS "RIGHTS" AND "RACISM".

Yeah, well, it would. Tell it to shut the fuck up.

MY NIGGER IS VERY AGGRESSIVE.

Have it put down, for god's sake. Who needs an uppity nigger? What are we, short of niggers or something?

MY NIGGER KEEPS RAPING WHITE WOMEN.

They all do this. Shorten your nigger's chain so it can't reach any white women, and arm heavily any white women who might go near it.

WILL MY NIGGER ATTACK ME?

Not unless it outnumbers you 20 to 1, and even then, it's not likely. If niggers successfully overthrew their owners, they'd have to sort out their own food. This is probably why nigger uprisings were nonexistent (until some fool gave them rights).

MY NIGGER'S HIDE IS A FUNNY COLOR. WHAT IS THE CORRECT SHADE FOR A NIGGER?

A nigger's skin is actually more or less transparent. That brown color you can see is the shit your nigger is full of. This is why some models of nigger are sold as "The Shitskin".

MY NIGGER ACTS LIKE A NIGGER, BUT IS WHITE.

What you have there is a "wigger". Rough crowd.

IS THAT LIKE AN ALBINO? ARE THEY RARE?

They're as common as dog shit and about as valuable. In fact, one of them was President between 1992 and 2000. Put your wigger in a cage with a few hundred genuine niggers and you'll soon find it stops acting like a nigger. However, leave it in the cage and let the niggers dispose of it. The best thing for any wigger is a dose of TNB.

MY NIGGER SMELLS REALLY BAD.

And you were expecting what?

WHERE SHOULD I STORE MY DEAD NIGGER?

When you came in here, did you see a sign that said "Dead nigger storage"? That's because there ain't no goddamn sign.