LoneRebel
Emperor
This reply is a bit late, but I think I've figured out why civs that should be friendly to me (the ones with the same ideology) were guarded. It was because of America's huge military strength making them afraid, yet the "afraid" wouldn't show up and manifested as "guarded" instead.
With regard to the division of civs by ideology, I guess the current arrangement is fine. Making South Africa, Brazil, and Argentina Order civs is a bit unusual, but let's face it, if we made their ideologies more accurate, almost every civ in the world would be Freedom. Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, North Korea, and Russia would be Autocracy civs. Turkey could be Freedom or Autocracy. And China would be either Order or Autocracy. There aren't many actual communists in today's world.
For my game, I won a diplomatic victory pretty early too, like turn 60 or something. Treaty Organization works wonders. In fact I was actually trying to not win and deliberately kept my city-state allies below the necessary number to win, since I wanted to play more turns. But I forgot that civs that you liberate always vote for you, and I had liberated South Korea from Russian rule, so I ended up winning inadvertently.
With regard to the division of civs by ideology, I guess the current arrangement is fine. Making South Africa, Brazil, and Argentina Order civs is a bit unusual, but let's face it, if we made their ideologies more accurate, almost every civ in the world would be Freedom. Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, North Korea, and Russia would be Autocracy civs. Turkey could be Freedom or Autocracy. And China would be either Order or Autocracy. There aren't many actual communists in today's world.
For my game, I won a diplomatic victory pretty early too, like turn 60 or something. Treaty Organization works wonders. In fact I was actually trying to not win and deliberately kept my city-state allies below the necessary number to win, since I wanted to play more turns. But I forgot that civs that you liberate always vote for you, and I had liberated South Korea from Russian rule, so I ended up winning inadvertently.