Remember the commandments in the sidebar. They are holy. All shall follow them.

Do not act with information you don't have.

Don't try to win. The aim of this game is not winning, it is having fun. Awesome as it is to see your empire cover the whole world, it is definitely not fun for everyone else. To illustrate this point, fairly soon some of us mods are going to have our nations quasi-collapse from internal conflicts; hopefully that can show you how losing can be fun.

Another example of losing being fun is the USBE; before they lost that large conflict a while back, they were just yet another socialist nation; now, IMO, they are a lot more interesting.

Just keep this stuff in mind, okay?