Vienna (Napoleon's World)

Vienna (German: Wien) is a major European city and the capital of Austria. It was previously the capital of the Hapsburg Empire, the Austrian Empire, and the Confederation of the Danube, better known as Danubia. An alpha world city, Vienna has a population of approximately 2.5 million and is home to the headquarters of the European Community.

Economy
Even despite the chaos of the European Spring, Vienna remains a global economic hub and serves as a gateway to post-Danubian Europe as it did in previous decades. It is a major financial center and is sought-after due to its multilingual populace and relative safety compared to other cities such as Pressburg, Prague, and Budapest, though the crime rate tripled between 2013-2016 before seeing a relative decline. After a severe recession in the mid-2010s, Vienna has recovered slightly and is growing again with an influx of Asian and Western companies seeking to take advantage of its relative low cost of doing business and educated workforce. Critical to Vienna as compared to peer cities in Europe is cheap housing, thanks to the city's longstanding aggressive public housing policy, especially in peripheral districts and neighborhoods.

The relative affluence of Vienna stands in sharp contrast to much of the Austrian hinterland, a point of resentment for many rural or small-city residents - its is estimated that the GDP per capita of Vienna is 2.5-3 times higher than in most other Austrian districts, many of which have seen population decline since the 1960s.

Demographics
Vienna proper, as of 2018, had an estimated population of 2,471,677, a decrease from its 2010 census population of 2,546,187. The population of the city has been hard to assess due to the European Spring - many Czech and Hungarian residents returned to their homelands, while German refugees poured into the city after being displaced, particularly in the lower Danube Basin. The Vienna metropolitan region, which includes towns and districts in neighboring Lower Austria, has a population approximating 3.5 million people, nearly 50% of Austria's population.

Vienna has substantial populations of foreigners, primary from southeastern and eastern Europe, with large Russian, Serbian, Armenian and Bulgarian populations. Vienna's large Croat and Rumanian communities have largely left the country since the European Spring and the collapse of Danubia due to conflicts with local Hungarians. In recent years, Vienna has also seen a large influx of African immigrants, particularly from New Germany and East Africa.