Well, no one knows exactly where we are; we seem to be in some sort of alternate world altogether, though I don't know how amenable you are to that sort of idea. It's also likely that we're from alternate worlds in relation to one another - in other words, I wouldn't be surprised if "Desert Bluffs" doesn't exist at all in the version of America that my world has, which is likely why I've never heard of your smiling god.

On the negative side, no one is entirely sure how to leave this place, or what brought us here; on the positive...well, we'll all be sent home eventually, and it will be as though no time at all has passed for us - we'll be put back exactly where we came from. We also can't die while we're here, to my knowledge, so that's a consolation as well, I suppose.