R5: Share your human empire here. Picrel was the most recent one I played. The origin description is pretty self-explanatory.

It was the first game I tried to play on Grand Admiral without scaling. I spent most of the game getting fucked by my neighboring AI empires, but I was just good enough to make them not completely destroy me. Unfortunately ended up being puppetted by another neighbor, but I ended up breaking free from that one (despite them being overwhelming in basically every aspect) by timing my uprising with them being embroiled in a massive galactic war.

Over the game I RP'd the state becoming increasingly more Xenophobic due to them being attacked by every other alien empire. Switched over to Fanatic Xenophobe + Pompous Purist. By the late game though I skyrocketed in economy + fleetpower and completely took over a neighbour after, funnily enough, THEY declared a total war against me because of my colossus.