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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]]'')

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]]'')

During the [[22nd century Dalek invasion|Dalek invasion of Earth]] in the [[2150s]], the [[House of Commons]] had a mosaic with the logo of the World Zones Authority. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies]]'')

** Arctic Zone Deputy, [[Lars Helvig]]. Found dead in his office, supposed suicide but there was no known reason. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Enemy of the World (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Enemy of the World]]'')

* Central [[Asia]]n

** Controller, [[Mikhail Assevski]]. Assevski was a former Olympic Marathon-Swim Gold Medalist but found drowned 100 metres offshore in Lake Baikal.

** Former Finance Deputy, [[Jean Ferrier]], father to Astrid Ferrier. He was an expert skier but vanished without a trace in perfect weather conditions. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Enemy of the World (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Enemy of the World]]'')

* [[North Africa]]n and [[Europe]]an Zone

** European Zone Commissioner, [[John Freremont]]. Brutally murdered. No arrests were ever made. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Enemy of the World (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Enemy of the World]]'')

== Behind the scenes ==

The organisation is called the World Zone Authority on-screen, the World Zones Organisation in the [[Doctor Who and the Enemy of the World|novelisation]], and the World Zones Authority in ''[[Alien Bodies]]''.