The First Steps walkthrough needs a whole new go-over from beginning to end to take into account the almost completely different way in which newcomers get citizenship. As others have said, the game is in a worrying limbo at the moment and while that is true I don't see many people bothering with improving the wiki when it could all be for naught.
To address your question specifically, when newcomers bought or traded their way out of QA1 in AWA (AW Alpha) they had to make their way through the Labyrinth of Death (LoD) as a noobot either on the backs of couriers or on their own. In AWS (AW Survival), newcomers can still either buy or trade for their citizenship but there's no more LoD zone and no more restrictions for newcomers to go where they want, just like citizens. This is probably only temporary though - another reason why the First Steps guide hasn't been re-worked - because the devs have mentioned there being multiple quarantines with multiple LoD-like areas for newcomers to be couriered through.
That being said, just ask any questions right here in this thread if you can't find anyone in-game and we'll do our best to answer them.
