I would have appeared more of an appealing prospect for recruitment - given that my nation was 20 days old - and I had acquired 790 Technology (the maximum actually possible for that given length of time; full Aid each slot continually, and two $20 Donations) and over 3000 Infrastructure, a full fleet of 60 Level 9 Aircrafts, and was literally unblemished and profound. Also, this was maximized in every way possible, given that I got a decent (perfect) Eight Bonus Resource Trade Circle within the hour of creation. I had 17,152.00 NS, with an efficiency rating of 857.6.
Deleted due to RL mania though, and am currently waiting out the time with mindless posts before this forum account is deleted.
I recommend you go and join Nebula-X, Paragon Ascendancy or Grand Peace Order. All three are FTW.