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{{Too listy}}The '''World Zone Authority''' was the successor to the [[United Nations]] on [[Earth]] in the early [[21st century]]. Nations were grouped into Zones answerable to a World President, headquartered in the UN's old [[New York]] building. Each Zone had its own Controller but a centralised security agency under a World Security Chief had jurisdiction over the whole body, and visas and passes were needed to move from Zone to Zone. Rockets had replaced planes: the [[Australia]]-[[Hungary]] flight took two hours. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Enemy of the World]]'') | {{Too listy}}The '''World Zone Authority''' was the successor to the [[United Nations]] on [[Earth]] in the early [[21st century]]. Nations were grouped into Zones answerable to a World President, headquartered in the UN's old [[New York]] building. Each Zone had its own Controller but a centralised security agency under a World Security Chief had jurisdiction over the whole body, and visas and passes were needed to move from Zone to Zone. Rockets had replaced planes: the [[Australia]]-[[Hungary]] flight took two hours. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Enemy of the World]]'') | ||
In the 2010s, the planet was suffering food shortages and the scientist [[Ramón Salamander]] gained fame for solving the problem; his [[Sun Store]] increased grain production in [[Canada]] and [[Ukraine]] in [[2018]]. Secretly, Salamander was power hungry and in [[2013]], he'd begun a plan to conquer the planet by tricking scientists into believing a [[nuclear war]] had started. While he murdered and blackmailed politicians to allow his own trusted officials to take top jobs in the Authority, he had the scientists | In the 2010s, the planet was suffering food shortages and the scientist [[Ramón Salamander]] gained fame for solving the problem; his [[Sun Store]] increased grain production in [[Canada]] and [[Ukraine]] in [[2018]]. Secretly, Salamander was power hungry and in [[2013]], he'd begun a plan to conquer the planet by tricking scientists into believing a [[nuclear war]] had started. While he murdered and blackmailed politicians to allow his own trusted officials to take top jobs in the Authority, he had the scientists cause "natural" disasters that he could "warn" against or aid. In 2018, he triggered a volcano in the Central European Zone and discredited the Controller. His plot was discovered and stopped by the [[Second Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Enemy of the World]]'') | ||
In [[2054]], [[General]] [[Tchike]] had direct orders from the inner circle of the World Zones Authority to capture [[thermosystron bomb]]s from the [[Montana Republican Militia]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies]]'') | In [[2054]], [[General]] [[Tchike]] had direct orders from the inner circle of the World Zones Authority to capture [[thermosystron bomb]]s from the [[Montana Republican Militia]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies]]'') | ||
