Hosting a simple LAN game? Noob question.

[CurseUppl]

Hey guys. New here, been playing for a while and so on.

Anyway, my friend got the game and he brought his laptop over, so I thought we'd have a LAN game (for things to go faster, since Hotseat is one person at a time) and I was absolutely baffled by how multiplayer works.

We messed around with it, nothing seemed to happen, couldn't choose are nations or anything else. Obviously either LAN doesn't exist or it's on a different level of what I'm used to in most games.

So please, can anyone tell me how it works, so we can play? Or link me to a guide, or something.

Thank you, and sorry if this is on the wrong forum