Like many of the text adventures in the game, the lore is disconnected from the actual world. Go down into the antling nest in XI and you will see a depiction of a great battle between Galkas and ant beastmen, and hear about it in the lore, and actually see how that affects Galkas, and the beastmen in the world.

In this game it's mentioned in passing, but it doesn't really exist. In XI, the lore existed, physically, in the game.

Here you hear about Ala Mhigo refugees, but all you see are token ones in a pugilist fight (why ? random) and one tiny, useless, shallow refugee camp.

They're being lazy with the lore. It's way too superficial.