"So the government cares about everyone, at least nominally, like here, or are they just worried that an epidemic might spread past the slums? Or are those laws only good if the person legally existed?"

She has no idea how any of this works back home, really. But some of the areas north of where she is from... where the poor areas turn into some of the worst slums that the Ruhrsprawl has? She kind of doubts that dead bodies are necessarily disposed of in expensive ways there, or that authorities would care unless there is a very good reason for them to care.