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@cleveland
I can't agree that subbing is a best way to learn — you don't have an idea how has your nation been evolving and what were your predecessor's plans (of course sometimes you'd be given some instructions, but it's impossible to describe everything). IMHO the best way to learn is to obtain a turns archive from some finished game and follow turns carefully. Examining several games with skilled players has helped me greatly.

@GrudgeBringer
All the nations are balanced for default magic settings. Of course it's possible to play with hard research and minimum gems, but actually it requires much more skill than using defaults, and it's definitely not for a newbie game.