Nah... nothing like that. A jacked-up Infinity Stone is the reason for all that. As for this place... Galador's population was mostly wiped out in a war some years back... so they're being cool enough to let us all stay here. Each part of the continent we live on has different people in charge, like towns and cities on Earth.
My 'rents, Peter and Kitty Quill, are two of the folks who help run Freedomtown. I'm Kurt, by the way. What should I call you, besides gorgeous?