
One of the more populated habitats within the Corellian Sector was the public housing area and the machine shops atop Level 88. Though dominated politically and economically by the Hutts and Corellian-descended Humans, people of many species lived in the Corellian Sector. The Sector could be reached by a secret tunnel entrance from the Duros Sector. The entire city reeked of refuse and debris as repulsorlift garbage scows floated from level to level collecting garbage. The most profitable enterprise found in this region was the gambling industry. This sector housed many public merchant areas and an ill-kept warehouse district located along the perimeter of an expansive thoroughfare. Casinos and trendy hotspots such as the Meltdown Café attracted patrons from all walks of life.

One of the busy back-alley residential areasThe Corellian Sector was a high-rise district. Sections of the urbanized moon's vertical city included the Duros sector, the Rodian Sector and the Corellian sector, which contained three bars popular with bounty hunters - the Burning Deck, the Slag Pit, and the Meltdown Café (famous for selling bitter, syrupy drinks known as Tatooine Sunburns), and another corner tavern called the Orange Lady.

Various sections of Nar Shaddaa were controlled by the Hutts and other criminal organizations.

Anything illegal elsewhere could be bought and sold on Nar Shaddaa, and many young smugglers, pirates and criminals started their careers on the Smugglers' Moon. The moon was protected by often-malfunctioning planetary shields. Now distant from most galactic trade centers, the moon was allowed to run its own affairs with little outside interference. Inside one of its many popular tapcafeWhile much of Coruscant was filled with gleaming apartments and well-maintained skywalks, the entire moon that was Nar Shaddaa was dominated by decaying urban landscape and congested, polluted cities.
