Now, while talking to that "old woman," Sun Hang considered two possibilities—first, he was a descendant of refugees from the Yundian Region; second, he was born in the Surrendered Area.
First, let's analyze the first possibility. If he were a descendant of refugees, theoretically, he shouldn't be undocumented... In the past sixty years, over ninety-nine percent of the refugees who flowed into the Shuzhou Region managed to obtain legal citizenship. Only a very few living in impoverished rural areas remained undocumented.
Having citizenship means access to a lot of benefits, the most important being free education and social security subsidies. Moreover, in later stages, as the Federation Government sought to expand the population in Shuzhou Region, they adopted a policy of accepting all refugees. If one applied for citizenship, rejection was unlikely. Logically, no one should be stubborn enough to refuse free benefits.
