Yeah, that's basically what it does. Everything follows strict statistics. Sure, you can win the lottery in this game, but your chances are as good as winning a REAL lottery. Man if I win the lottery in this game I will shoot myself.
If storms happen in your country, but rarely affect you, then that storm, in real life, probably statistically never hits your area. But yeah I've played about 5 lives in this game, it's pretty fun, although not a whole lot you can do. The live I tried to make the worst was one of my best lives. I dropped out of school early and moved to some other country and ended up rich. I was also bi.