This must be for an mmporg, then? I drilled down to a continent on a planet, and into a realm and then a castle, and then into a woman's memories, and even the body and mind of a bacterium on her left leg. (The bacterium's only thought was "I'm one cell of a guy.")
This is simple rule based generation. Every type of node has certain pseudo random distribution of children. So you pass seed object (by default universe, but comment in source specifies it can be anything), and then programmatic pseudo-random on the fly generation magic happens.