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'''Alba Concordia''' is a city in eastern [[Levantia]], and serves as the meeting place of the [[League of Nations]]. The city, once a village on the outskirts of the [[Deric States]] city of Rufus Concordia, was chosen by the [[League of Nations]] as its headquarters after the League was established following the Great War. A city-state in international territory, Alba Concordia is governed by a council of commissioners appointed by [[League of Nations]] officials. Most of the residents of the city are of non-[[Derian people|Derian]] descent, either being transient diplomatic staff or the descendants of former diplomatic staff.

Alba Concordia is not a member of the [[Deric States]] or the [[Levantine Union]], but is covered under the free trade and free travel provisions of those organizations. While having its own defense force, the city-state is mostly dependent upon the Levantine Union for its military defense.

As much of Alba Concordia's population is composed of career diplomats and their staff, the city-state has an unusual age profile. Whereas most developed countries have around 35-40% of their population either younger than 16 or older than 65, in Alba Concordia nearly 90% of the population are aged 16-65. This is because few children are born in the city, except to the native [[Derian people|Derian]] minority who form the backbone of the local economy, and relatively few diplomatic personnel or attachés opt to retire as Concordians either. All told, children constitute barely 5,000 of the city's 96,000 residents, with retirees making up a similar number; there are consequently only around 20 schools in the city at primary and secondary level combined, not counting mini-schools in diplomatic compounds, simply because no more are required.

As noted above, Derians only form around 35% of the city-state's population, with the other 65% a potpourri of nationalities on account of the many diplomatic missions located in Alba Concordia. One further demographic quirk resulting from this international presence is that Alba Concordia has the highest number of chefs per capita of any country in the world, due to different missions' craving for the varied flavours of their homelands and their relatively high levels of disposable income. Approximately 2.5% of the city's population listed their occupation as "chef", "cook" or equivalent terminology in the 2021 Alba Concordia census, against a wider Levantine average of 0.2-0.5%.

The most widely-spoken languages in Alba Concordia are [[Julian Ænglish|Junglish]] and Derian, with Junglish spoken almost exclusively as a second-language ''lingua franca'' and Derian as the most common mother tongue. Many diplomatic missions run either voluntary or compulsory Derian courses for long-term resident staff, but the preponderance of Junglish in Concordian daily life remains a source of resentment to many locals. Petitions to make Derian the sole official language of Alba Concordia were a common feature of Concordian domestic politics throughout the 1990s in particular, but were consistently vetoed by the Commission on somewhat eyebrow-raising grounds of "internationalism".

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