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No. The backstory is that in the ancient (post-apocalyptic) past, when the mutated humans (Overlanders) and the mutated animals (Mobians) met each other, there were two kids playing with each other, implied to be ancestors of Robotnik and Sally. But the humans liked hunting, and the mobians were horrified by it, and then the human kid accidentally shot the squirrel kid, and there was eternal war.
In modern day, Julian Kintobor, of the house of Ivo, was run out of town by the other Overlanders due to them discovering his power hungry nature and plans to fuck with them. He arrived at the Kingdom of Acorn, as a defector, so the king gave him a job as Minister of Science, and he designed weapons to use against the Overlanders. Eventually he betrayed them, banished The King and royal wizard Naugus (who was also plotting to take over) to a prison dimension known as The Void. Actually, it's called The Void in the cartoon, but for some reason in the comics, shortly after the cartoon was cancelled, they said that actually The Void was a separate, less scary prison dimension, and the one the King and Naugus were in was The Zone of Silence. The Freedom Fighters eventually rescue the king and kill Robotnik but it turns out actually it was Naugus in disguise, so he does some evil shit but eventually they discover the truth and later they rescue the real king. But actually that king was at one point replaced with a robot, and another time brainwashed. So he was kind of a dick. One thing he did was trying to genocide all the Mobians who had been roboticized, even though without Robotnik around, they were no longer brainwashed, so he was just trying to kill innocent people. But it wasn't really his fault, it was Naugus. Once Naugus is dealt with, The King is shown to be feeble and not terribly competent, but not a bad guy. He eventually abdicates and gives the crown to his son, Sally's younger brother, Elias. Sally doesn't want royal responsibilities. The former king is still relevant, though. He later has conflict with Tails's parents, who were secretly abducted by aliens and lived on an alien planet for like ten years. There, they learned to love democracy, so when they came back they tried to overthrow the king. The King was shown as being a bit too traditional, but Tails' parents were also shown as flawed for wanting to overthrow the government. Elias is stuck in the middle. In the end they turn the kingdom into a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary democracy. The former King isn't terribly pleased, but it was the only feasible solution to keep the whole kingdom from falling apart.
In the meantime, they discover Station Square, hidden in a volcano. The humans there aren't mutated. Their military is called the Guardian Units of the Nation (GUN). They eventually link up with the Overlander cities, as they all hate Robotnik, and form The United Federation (UF). GUN seems to become the military of this new country.
At one point Tails sends all the Chaos Emeralds into The Zone of Silence, which transforms it into The Special Stage. There was a previous dimension known as The Special Stage but Super Sonic and Hyper Knuckles destroyed it in a fight years earlier. So now the dimension that The King and Naugus were trapped in became The Special Stage, but it was formerly known as The Zone of Silence.
Later the king seems to recover a little bit over time, but he's still too feeble to rule. Eventually Elias ends up losing the throne to Naugus. See, when The King and Naugus were in The Void (or rather, The Zone of Silence) together, he promised Naugus that he Naugus helped him, he'd give him his kingdom. So really Naugus is right. So Naugus becomes King, and right around the time Sonic and the Freedom Fighters were about to dethrone him, Robotnik II (the original Robotnik was killed and replaced with his doppelganger from another dimension that was exactly the same except he won) re-wrote reality with something called The Genesis Wave. So the story continues, but certain elements of history are changed. From this point forward, Elias is never mentioned again, and the former king is The King again, no longer a feeble old man. He also has a different first name. Formerly it was Max, now it's Nigel. However, you can sort of just pretend that in a brief moment that wasn't seen, The King decided he was healthy enough to rule again, and Elias just fucked off to be a secret agent (which is what he did when Naugus dethroned him).
Later, a flashback in the newly rewritten timeline shows a scene that seems to take place immediately after Sonic 1, wherein it's established that The King was now always trapped in The Special Stage, which was never known as The Zone of Silence, but Sonic saved him during the events of Sonic 1. It's also when he met all the main Freedom Fighters. But then at the end of the flashback, the king is shown to have Naugus's shadow, so Naugus is influencing him, but it's unclear if he's Naugus in disguise or if Naugus is brainwashing him or whatever. Also, this scene takes place far earlier in the timeline than when The King was previously rescued, as previously he was rescued not during Sonic 1 (the whole series began after Sonic 2), but at some point after 3D Blast. The reference to Naugus controlling him is clearly in reference to past stories, and not used to set up future stories, but since things are slightly different in the new timeline, it's unclear just how much bad stuff he did in this timeline. He had more time to do it, but in the present, he's a nice guy.
In the present, The Kingdom of Acorn has friendly relationships with other countries, including human countries like The United Federation. The whole thing with the Overlanders never happened. Station Square isn't in a volcano. GUN now stands for The Guardian Units of Nations (as it does in the games) and they're now an international military force. The UF is just one country and not essentially every country that isn't The Kingdom of Acorn. Robotnik used to work for GUN, with his underling Julian Snivley, and was loaned to The Kingdom of Acorn in a form of peaceful international exchange. Robotnik then decided to take over, almost exactly like in the old timeline. Snivley, in the new timeline, was established as never severing ties with GUN, and insists that he was actually spying on Robotnik the entire time, only pretending to defect with him, but was actually always loyal to GUN. As one piece of evidence, they show that in Sonic 3 & Knuckles, Snivley was actually inside the Eggrobo that hassled Knuckles during his campaign. He says that Knuckles almost lost the Master Emerald to Robotnik, so he was instead trying to steal it for GUN, so they could keep it safe. This explains why Mecha Sonic destroyed that Eggrobo, as that Mecha Sonic wasn't working for him, but was either now independent (as it later would be in the IDW comics by the same writer) or still working for Robotnik. The people at GUN don't believe Snivley, and think he was probably just out for himself, but they play along as they figure it's smarter to keep their enemies closer.