The next... she isn't even sure how to start asking about it. So she'll try to take an indirect inroad.

"Does everyone here have a citizenship?" There is a distinctive difference between a slum where the majority has one and a slum where the majority doesn't, she's found. Like the relative amount of interest that the government takes in the safety and well-being of those who live there - close to negative amounts or or decidedly negative amounts. And all that follows from that. And Hex seems to be missing the second kind of slums.