You arise in a Non-dilapidated enrichment center, despite it being 100,000 years since Portal 2, and once you solve your first test, the entire facility is underpowered, and by extension, nearly non-functional. What an Enrichment Center!
In the test chambers, everything seems orderly, but backstage, you'll see the unorganized mess that is the BTS section.
Yay, not dead!