Well I'll try to keep this brief, I've tried to stay as an independant nation a.k.a. a non-alliance affiliated but I've been targeted by three war mongering nations that are after my tech. I've tried getting tech deals to get the money to keep a stong defense but that didn't work and I've tried to bluff them by saying I've joined a strong alliance and any further attacks will be punished and of course we know how that turned out. Anyway the topic title explains my situation and what I mean by "open to joining an alliance" is that if an alliance can get some revenge on my behalf I'll join them. It's first come first serve, just post in this topic and we'll see if you can actually do something.
EDIT: I'm joining Carpe Diem, hopefully they'll do something to help me out soon...