I have a pretty decent empire going on here.
Lets see...The CSA exists because during the american civil war I intervened with a wargoal to free some CSA cores from the yanks. Eventually it got to a point where the USA and it's SoI could not defeat the CSA, they tried twice to reclaim lost land, all met with crippling failure. NGF never formed thanks to Austria claiming that area in denmark I cannot pronouce or spell! Typically, The ottoman empire went into a swift decline but became a great power again during the 1890 I think, but after a war with me and communist revolutions it quickly fell down the ranks. Italy formed, not sure how exactly, probably through those Italian-pan nationalists.
I fancied a Russian holiday, it went very well and I claimed land around the crimea. After the war Russia fell into anarchy with communist, jacobin and anarcho-liberals rising up and generally giving Russia a hard time. We can also see cyprus is under my control. good for me.
As you can see I 'expanded' into Europe, at first i didn't mean to but portugal called for my help because Spain was trying to take some of their colonies. However, Spain was allied with France making the war alot bigger than it should have been. So i decided to take alot of spainish land and colonies, eventually I claimed the west of France in a series of wars against both countries.
Not alot to talk about here, what you see is what you get.
I'm very good at grabbing alot of Africa very quickly, usually I just get all the liferating techs as soon as possible, then "save up" for machine guns, giving me a head start on all the other great and secondary powers.
"look at those british, walking around with their flags sticking out and their stiff upper lip! Its like they own the place!"
"they do"