Is Traken the garden of Eden?

Eve and the Serpent by Rose Piper. As a completely irrelevant aside, I found this artwork in a post by Danielle Fowler on English 123: Introduction to Fiction where she specifies that Eve here is an African American. Presumably that's information that's given on the little side-note thing you get in galleries, but I'm curious if that's something that could read into the picture without being told.

Is 'The Keeper of Traken' riffing on the Garden of Eden? Traken is kind of established as paradise. Its ruled over by an omnipotent power with very specific gaps in what he sees coming. Kassia gives into temptation in a garden. The Master's later a serpent in 'Doctor Who'.

If it is, does Dicks take the chance to slyly hint how awful pre-Fall (alright, prelapsarian) life must have been? That the biblical god was a tyrant? That this whole paradise thing had got complacent and needed stirring up? He really doubles down on the Traken Union as an empire, even before the Master starts announcing his plans for it. I really have a bit of a go at Dicks in this one, but that sort of scepticism is exactly why he's such a joy.

While you're here, a few other random observations. The 1982 Target blurb mentions that the Keeper 'summons the Fourth Doctor to his aid’ (tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Doctor_Who_and_the_Keeper_of_Traken_(novelisation)) - is that the first reference to a specifically numbered Doctor on a back cover? I think odder is the way the 1993 blurb specifies that ‘The Keeper of Traken saw the introduction of Sarah Sutton as the lovely Nyssa’ - why the specific adjective? Does every companion get a one-word summary on these reprints. Is Jamie 'loyal', Leela 'feisty' and Peri 'shat-upon'?

Anyway, for an overly long ramble about the contents of Doctor Who and the Keeper of Traken, look no further (by which I mean, look here)...