Victory Points?

[thejeff]

Most likely there is no Victory Point condition in the game you're in. For reasons that are unclear starting a MP game often puts Victory provinces on the map even when no Victory condition was chosen.

These will have no effect other than the bit of Dominion boost.

As suggested above, if graphs are on there will be a Victory graph if there is a Victory condition. There's also a game options view somewhere. That might show you. I can't remember.