Civ Proximity issue

When creating a game, I don't exactly know how the Civilization Proximity setting works. If I choose "Distant" with several sectors, the game puts me in the same sector with 11 of the 16 AI civs. And if I select "Far", then the game puts me in one sector alone, while the most of the AI civs end up next to each other in one of the other sectors, and there are multiple sectors which are empty. And such unbalanced distancing ruins the game from the very first turn.