Eh, it is what it is. Even I'd have preferred not to have been there, but you do what you have to do with the situation you've got.
Not ours. You ever play the Fallout games? If not: Picture a Jetsons-style futretech world, with all the weird 50's art deco touches. A pretty cool utopia, right? I mean besides the terrible art deco crap. Now imagine what would happen if all the countries in that world nuked each other to high hell.