The War Doctor of John Hurt is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by The War Doctor with an even hand, and remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, prohibition of alcohol, and hatred of cheese. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 7.341 billion Gallifreyans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Arcadia. The average income tax rate is 58.6%.

The powerhouse Gallifreyan economy, worth 593 trillion moments a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Gambling. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is 80,836 moments, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

Voting is voluntary, the government has an entire department dedicated to staring at microscopes and writing down letters, teenagers claim that morning paper rounds are performance art, and the disabled are forced to undergo an MRI scan every time they pick up their benefit payments. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. John Hurt's national animal is the zygon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Science.

John Hurt is ranked 84,664^th in the world and 8^th in The Doctors for Most Developed, scoring 65.93 on the Human Development Index.