OK, here's an idea:
YOu know, there is a switch:
controlled by human/controlled by computer
Now thats a checkbox. It could be a dropbox, where you select human/computer/TESTING.
In testing mode the race is completely controlled by the AI, but you can still see it as if you were playing it. And to that mode there will be some kind of hotkey, or a function in, for example, the 'Empire' or 'Options' windows which will launch dialog which will show the current state of the AI, OR a state history window, which will act much like the treaty history.
(example:
Year 2400,0 - exploration state
Year 2401,6 - Infrastructure State
etc, etc, etc.)
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