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Go full Ferengi.
>authoritarian, materialist, either xenophobe or fanatic materialist
>indentured assets, ruthless competition
>only male leaders (forget the DS9 feminism arc)
Be ethnocentric while happily exploiting your own. Send out envoys and make deal with everyone, try to maximise your number of envoys so you can spy and steal technology. Never enter into a defensive pact or a federation.