The Doctor didn't actually seem all that incredulous, but he did cast a a curious glance toward the Germany booth, as though considering whether he ought to go investigate a woman thus armed.

"I think it was one of those things that was a lot more complicated under the surface," he answered. "The whole governmental system was pretty new; they'd only settled on the planet some 80 years before; hence the three different bodies. I'm not sure what would've come of it, if anything, but before anything could get too much more out of hand a certain alien in the room piped up with the question he'd finally figured out how to ask, which was why the hell they wanted to make lederhosen the national trouser anyway."