Well...that's cause Miseryville's ruler, Lucius Heinous the Seventh, has a job to do, and his job is to make Miseryville as miserable of a place to live as possible! With the heaaat and the lava worms and the monsters...

And of course all of his neat Misery Inc. products!

[He counts off on his fingers as calmly as you please, as if he's discussing the weather.]