Despite outward appearances, Crossroads is a very lively and livable verse.
Crossroads World is a world that was previously devoid of civilization, but for thousands of years has been established as a great meeting point for travellers from thousands of different verses from across the multiverse. There is no central government (there are many thousands of city states and territories) and much of the world is composed of giant, Bombay-style, slums built using resources and technology imported from many thousands of verses. No civilization capable of multiverse transfer is considered a true multiverse-faring civilization until it has established itself in Crossroads.