Easy. You describe it however you want, but you have to ensure that it is shown to be your character's perspective, rather than an actual state of the region. For example, your character could see a mugging, fight it off, and assume that the region is lawless. This would fit what your character saw of it, but would not say definitively what the state of the region was beyond what your character thought of it as.
Harder when someone says, "The castle was made of dung...." or "The local Haradrim tribesmen..."
Which implies points of fact and not only personal experience.
