Will I restarted as the United Nations of Sol, and I'm having a lot more fun. Maybe it's because the fact I'm not Xenophobic means I'm not being forced into wars all the time to please my citizens, and the lack of a need to maintain a large space fleet means I've been surplus in everything since I started.

Did get to the first election without fulfilling the president's promise to bring in more Energy Credits, because I'd hit it by just six and hadn't recovered from building a new fleet just in case these new aliens were aggressive. But my second president is well on their way to fulfilling their campaign promises, even if I had to hire a new scientist to replace them.

I'm finding that making trade and research agreements is causing the game to be much more enjoyable, and am already slowly heading towards setting up the United Federation of Galaxy.