please i know the it's important to keep regular work hours but it shouldn't mean that security let thieves pass by them because their shift is finished
actually quite simple if you do like the ia you just to invest almost all your funds in research with the max tax without a negative growth and only level up spy. After that just spam sabotage every nation on the map and take over when there all considerably weakened.
Maybe you conquer to much land? Conquered pops don't like that