The traditional atul method of First Game:
1) Apply for upcoming MP, preferably way before the game shipment has arrived.
2) Choose a nation you know nothing of just based on a hunch.
3) Create god, test for the first 10 turns, play MP, learn as you go, thrive until more than half of the remaining players gang up on you, go down in a blaze of glory.
Worked with Dom1 (Marignon, paladins are cool) and Dom2 (TC S&A, if you love them you can't be totally evil), so there's no reason for it not working the third time also.
Practice is for the weak.
