Is the class of urelements in NFU a set or contained in the universal set?

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I'm wondering about the urelements in $\mathrm{NFU}$.

  • How many of them are there?
  • Can the urelements be collected into a set?
  • Are the urelements, whether they form a set on their own or not, contained in the universal set?

The set theory NFU has a universal set, shown below.

$$ \{ x : x = x \} \; \text{is the universal set because the well-formed formula $x=x$ is stratifiable} $$

So, $x=x$ is always true, and therefore all sets at least are present in $\{x : x=x\}$, but I'm not sure whether the urelements are also included or not.

The set $ \{ x : \forall a \mathop. a \not\in x \} $ seems like it would contain the urelements and $\varnothing$.