Overlap, Iowa

Overlap is the largest city in central Iowa right on the border, a rural metropolis and the smallest ghost town in the United States. It is known for its sprawling fields, bustling suburbs, desolate swamps, congested coastlines, abandoned territories, and for absolutely nothing at all.

The reason for its paradoxically muddled description is that Overlap, Iowa is the specific convergence point of all timelines, plot lines, parallel universes, and alternate realities.

There is no continuity in Overlap whatsoever. A particular person might be a sheriff one day and a custodian at a secret government research facility the next. Come next week, they might not even have ever existed.

The population of Overlap are not aware of their unique cosmic positioning. They simply go about their days as they always have, never realizing that their yesterday had no bearing at all on today, while tomorrow is a completely random concept.