In this world.
Any given Civ game takes place in an alternate world, where none of those dynamics exist as facts.
[I apologize again for only being able to cite Civ V examples b/c I never played Civ VI but] in Civ V, if I'm playing as Russia, and it comes time to pick an ideology, should I avoid Autocracy (if it's most beneficial to my intended victory condition), knowing about the number of people in this world who suffered under totalitarian regimes in that country?
(The go-to example is wonders--Austria building Pyramids--but I wanted to go with something that involves atrocities (on a par with genocidal colonization) to suggest that such RW considerations have probably never hampered your in-game play before).
In this game, I border Polynesia. Between us is the city state of Belgrade, that gifted me Chu-ko-nus centuries ago and is known for its ivory. Why, in such a historically mixed up environment, should I care about what happened in that one incarnation of the world on which everybody seems to place such high priority?
The elements that make up a Civ game are disconnected bits of this world being reassembled in a new way in a new incarnation of earth history.