Here's a less-than-serious post about some post-UHV goals for people who want to aspire to... I have termed them Unique Modern Victories:
THE ARABS:
- OPEC: Ensure you and your vassals control 80% of all oil resources in the world.
- Islamic Revival: Ensure no non-Muslim civilisations control territory in Arabia, Mesopotamia, Central Asia, Pakistan, Anatolia and North Africa.
THE ASSYRIANS:
- Syriac Orthodox Church: Control three Orthodox Cathedrals by 2000AD.
THE BABYLONIANS (THE IRAQIS):
- Baathism: Control Iraq, Kuwait, Syria, the Levant and Khuzestan by 2000AD.
- Ishtar Program: Complete the Manhattan Project and build one ICBM by 2000AD.
THE BRITISH:
- Concert of Europe: Ensure no European country controls a city in another European country's core in 1800, 1900 and 2000AD.
- Fleet in Being: Station a Man of War, then a Battleship and Destroyer, then a Carrier with 3 Jet Fighters in North America, South America, Africa, South Asia, East Asia and Oceania.
- Anglofuturism: Research the most technologies by 2000AD.
THE BURMESE:
- Tatmadaw: Have the largest army in Asia and settle five Great Generals in your capital by 2000AD.
- Burmese Way to Socialism: Ensure no European, American or Muslim civilisations exist in South, Southeast, and East Asia.
THE BYZANTINES:
- Rome Resplendent: Ensure Constantinople and Rome are the most cultured cities in the world in 1450, 1600, 1800 and 2000AD.
- End the Great Schism: Ensure no Catholic civilisations exist.
THE CELTS:
- Irish Confederation: Never allow any English cities in Ireland from 1300 to 2000AD.
- Leprechaun Economics: Have each corporation in your capital for 10 turns, non-consecutively and non-exclusively.
THE CHINESE:
- Control or have vassals in Korea, Japan, Outer Manchuria, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Australia and Burma in 2025.
- Have the largest commerce per turn, hammers per turn, beakers per turn, population in 2025.
- Allow no European or American cities in the Middle East, Africa, South America in 2025.
THE CONGOLESE:
- Pan-Africanism: Allow no European civilisations in sub-Saharan Africa by 2000AD.
- Katanga Mines: Control the most gems, gold, copper, iron, uranium and rare earths in the world.
THE DANISH:
- Danish Colonial Empire: Control 3 cities in North America, 2 cities in South America, 2 cities in Africa, and 3 cities in Asia by 1800AD.
- Novo Nordisk: Be the first civilisation to research Genetics, Biotechnology and Transhumanism.
THE DRAVIDIANS (THE TAMILS):
- Tamil Revival: Ensure no non-Hindu religions for more than 5 turns per city in Dravidia and Sri Lanka from 1600AD to 2000AD.
- Keralan Miracle: Be the first civilisation to adopt Secularism and have the highest life expectancy in 2000AD.
THE GREEKS:
- Megali Idea: Control Greece, the Balkans and Anatolia in 1900AD.
THE INDIANS:
- Indian Century: Have the most population and hammers by 2020AD.
- Akhand Bharat: Control India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bengal, Burma and Tibet in 2020AD.
- Superpower 2020: Complete Mission to Mars by 2020AD.
THE KUSHANS (THE AFGHANS):
- Graveyard of Empires: Kill 50 units from civilisations with at least twice your score.
THE MUGHALS (THE PAKISTANIS):
- Chagai-I: Be the first non-European and non-American civilisation to complete the Manhattan Project.
- Pakistan Zindabad: Ensure South Asia is controlled by Muslim civilisations in 2020AD.
THE NUBIANS (THE SUDANIS):
- Mahdist State: Control Sudan, Egypt, Ethiopia and Somalia by 1900AD.
- Nile River Revolution: Have clean energy in all your cities and the highest average food-per-tile in the world.
THE ROMANS:
- Nova Roma: Own Italy, France, Spain, North Africa, Greece and Anatolia in 1000AD.
- Romance Civilisation: Have either pleased relations, vassalage, or own the core of Italy, France, Spain, Carthage, Moors, England, Greece, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Brazil and Argentina.
THE RUS (THE UKRAINIANS):
- Cossack Hetmanate: Kill 100 units with cavalry units.
- Metropolis of Kyiv: Control the Church of the Anastasis.
THE ARABS:
- OPEC: Ensure you and your vassals control 80% of all oil resources in the world.
- Islamic Revival: Ensure no non-Muslim civilisations control territory in Arabia, Mesopotamia, Central Asia, Pakistan, Anatolia and North Africa.
THE ASSYRIANS:
- Syriac Orthodox Church: Control three Orthodox Cathedrals by 2000AD.
THE BABYLONIANS (THE IRAQIS):
- Baathism: Control Iraq, Kuwait, Syria, the Levant and Khuzestan by 2000AD.
- Ishtar Program: Complete the Manhattan Project and build one ICBM by 2000AD.
THE BRITISH:
- Concert of Europe: Ensure no European country controls a city in another European country's core in 1800, 1900 and 2000AD.
- Fleet in Being: Station a Man of War, then a Battleship and Destroyer, then a Carrier with 3 Jet Fighters in North America, South America, Africa, South Asia, East Asia and Oceania.
- Anglofuturism: Research the most technologies by 2000AD.
THE BURMESE:
- Tatmadaw: Have the largest army in Asia and settle five Great Generals in your capital by 2000AD.
- Burmese Way to Socialism: Ensure no European, American or Muslim civilisations exist in South, Southeast, and East Asia.
THE BYZANTINES:
- Rome Resplendent: Ensure Constantinople and Rome are the most cultured cities in the world in 1450, 1600, 1800 and 2000AD.
- End the Great Schism: Ensure no Catholic civilisations exist.
THE CELTS:
- Irish Confederation: Never allow any English cities in Ireland from 1300 to 2000AD.
- Leprechaun Economics: Have each corporation in your capital for 10 turns, non-consecutively and non-exclusively.
THE CHINESE:
- Control or have vassals in Korea, Japan, Outer Manchuria, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Australia and Burma in 2025.
- Have the largest commerce per turn, hammers per turn, beakers per turn, population in 2025.
- Allow no European or American cities in the Middle East, Africa, South America in 2025.
THE CONGOLESE:
- Pan-Africanism: Allow no European civilisations in sub-Saharan Africa by 2000AD.
- Katanga Mines: Control the most gems, gold, copper, iron, uranium and rare earths in the world.
THE DANISH:
- Danish Colonial Empire: Control 3 cities in North America, 2 cities in South America, 2 cities in Africa, and 3 cities in Asia by 1800AD.
- Novo Nordisk: Be the first civilisation to research Genetics, Biotechnology and Transhumanism.
THE DRAVIDIANS (THE TAMILS):
- Tamil Revival: Ensure no non-Hindu religions for more than 5 turns per city in Dravidia and Sri Lanka from 1600AD to 2000AD.
- Keralan Miracle: Be the first civilisation to adopt Secularism and have the highest life expectancy in 2000AD.
THE GREEKS:
- Megali Idea: Control Greece, the Balkans and Anatolia in 1900AD.
THE INDIANS:
- Indian Century: Have the most population and hammers by 2020AD.
- Akhand Bharat: Control India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bengal, Burma and Tibet in 2020AD.
- Superpower 2020: Complete Mission to Mars by 2020AD.
THE KUSHANS (THE AFGHANS):
- Graveyard of Empires: Kill 50 units from civilisations with at least twice your score.
THE MUGHALS (THE PAKISTANIS):
- Chagai-I: Be the first non-European and non-American civilisation to complete the Manhattan Project.
- Pakistan Zindabad: Ensure South Asia is controlled by Muslim civilisations in 2020AD.
THE NUBIANS (THE SUDANIS):
- Mahdist State: Control Sudan, Egypt, Ethiopia and Somalia by 1900AD.
- Nile River Revolution: Have clean energy in all your cities and the highest average food-per-tile in the world.
THE ROMANS:
- Nova Roma: Own Italy, France, Spain, North Africa, Greece and Anatolia in 1000AD.
- Romance Civilisation: Have either pleased relations, vassalage, or own the core of Italy, France, Spain, Carthage, Moors, England, Greece, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Brazil and Argentina.
THE RUS (THE UKRAINIANS):
- Cossack Hetmanate: Kill 100 units with cavalry units.
- Metropolis of Kyiv: Control the Church of the Anastasis.