Once again, I said every week I'd provide a rough map of the city of Lüm with that week's neighborhood labeled, so here it is:

(Not much has changed from last week's map aside from one additional neighborhood being named.)

Nungunny is the northernmost neighborhood of L¨m, situated along the main highway running through the city. As such, it is located at one of the main entrances to the city; while fewer people enter Lüm along the highway from the north than over Chanter Bridge to the south, the number is still significant. Indeed, it is mainly for this reason that people first moved to the area that is now Nungunny, its settlers hoping to capitalize on the flow of visitors and make money with sales and hospitality. The initial population of the area was disproportinately made up of Honogan immigrants, which is how the neighborhood ended up getting its name: "Nungunny" is a corruption of "Nonga Ni", a Konogan phrase meaning "Welcome".

Unfortunately, the hoped-for income from hospitality services never really materialized. Most of the people entering along the highway are just passing through or have a destination closer to the center of the city, and few of them have any interest in spending the night in what remains a fairly poorly developed area. A few inns and restaurants near the highway do manage to make enough to get by, but it's a far cry from the plethora of such offerings in Newbridge. More recently, Nungunny has also become something of a center for the architectural and chemical industries, with multiple architectural firms headquartered there, and several major chemical factories. All of these establishments, however, are located very near the highways; past the relatively thin line of factories and offices flanking the highway, the rest of Nungunny remains relatively undeveloped, to the extent that in much of the neighborhood the roads are still made of wooden planks over the swamp. Some of the residents of these areas work in the buildings along the highway, though rarely in high-paying positions; others work elsewhere or provide shops and services to the other inhabitants of Nungunny.

Today, aside from the buildings near the highway, Nungunny is a relatively poor and somewhat isolated area. It has a reputation for lawlessness, but one not entirely deserved; it's true that the city guard spends little time or attention on Nungunny away from the highway, but the neighborhood's residents have ways of policing their own and have little tolerance for crimes against their community. Nungunny is one of the most diverse areas of modern Lüm; there are still plenty of Honogans here, but they make up a much smaller fraction of the population than they once did, having been joined by immigrants from many other lands, some of whom still keep to much of their old cultures in ethnic enclaves.

Occasionally Nungunny is considered to comprise two distinct neighborhoods, West Nungunny and East Nungunny, divided by the highway. However, the two halves of Nungunny are overall fairly similar, and there are enough bridges over the highway and other means of crossing it that they aren't really as separated as they may seem. If Nungunny is to be divided into two parts, it would make more sense to separate the firms, funduqs, and factories near the highway from the more residential and considerably more downscale areas beyond.

One notable landmark of Nungunny is the Greeting Gate, an enormous gate that crosses the highway near the north end of the neighborhood and of the city. Though theoretically the gate can shut and close off the highway, this has never been tested; it stands always open, a symbol of welcome rather than security. The Gate is decorated with colorful images, iconography, and phrases from a variety of cultures, designed to showcase the diversity of Nungunny and of Lüm and to provide visual interest. It continues to accumulate additional adornment over time, as each generation of Nungunny residents decides to add their own mark to their community's cynosure. Ladders and elevators provide access to the higher parts of the gate and allow visitors to get a closer look at its ornamentation. On the darker side, the Greeting Gate has often been used as a site for suicides, throwing oneself off the top of the gate onto the highway below being an effective way of ending one's life.