A list of short vignettes outlining the kinds of experiences we're going for.

Research / Exploration

• "I sent a research mission to collect and analyze a deposit of Schroedium to see if it had any useful properties."
• "My research of Schroedium’s properties revealed that it would allow the construction of wormhole drives."

Expansion / Exploitation

• "I launched a mission to build a Chinese colony around a deposit of Schroedium on Mars."

Intelligence

• "I was unaware of what my rival, India, was researching and producing because my reconnaissance attempts were getting shot down."

Governance

• "I instituted a law that gave tax cuts to people who have more children, increasing my colony's birth rate."
• "Unrest in my home country combined with increased self-sufficiency in my Martian colony caused me to restrict resources to my Martian colony, ultimately leading them to declare their independence."

Warfare

• "I took part in and won an armed conflict over a resource on Lunar soil that would have allowed me to double food supply for my populace."
• "I fended off an assault by Venusian separatists by wormhole driving my entire military fleet back from across the system just in time."
• I sent a weapons platform to the moon to destroy an orbital logistics point belonging to a rival country.