Reyna/Jason
From what I've been able to tell, we're in the United States. I believe someone said Virginia. A number of years ago, though I'm not sure just how long ago, there was a nuclear war and people fled from the Earth and into space in order to survive. They only recently returned after finding that people were able to survive on the surface of the planet again. No one knows why we're arriving in the pods or how it's happening.
I've also been hearing rumors of people being found dead, both here in the camp and around. I don't know all of the details, though.