Where people actually live: connected towers, rope bridges, cable lines. Forty thousand people built lives around the water line. Below line, between the water and the third floor, is technically habitable and functionally not.
The Eleventh Floor Belt. Where people actually live: connected towers, rope bridges, cable lines, forty thousand lives arranged around the height of the water. Ground floor is storage or sacrifice. Third floor and above is life. Everything between is below line, technically habitable and functionally not, fifteen degrees colder, rot endemic. The Belt is the ruins' population and therefore the ruins' argument. Every faction plan ends with who the Belt believes.