You didnt make a nation yet..?
Building mining area for more iron or etc. built pipe for water supply. expanded border/area. Built capital and houses
okay RubidianLabs, what are the results of my order?
Edit: make that hardwood bolts, find plants or animals that produce poison, and begin distilling it, and coating weapons with it, look for oil
expand the academies, and increase scientific funding, generaly raise taxes, but have a rebate for larger families to encourage populaiton growth, expand agriculture, and begin work on making seed drills and simple mechanical reapers, use the lenses for telescopes and microscopes(for medical reaserch), begin work on better pumps, for both air and water, expand in all directions, improve fishing gear, use the silk to make stronger sails and ropes, continue reaserching mechanisms
begin working on making damascus steel, start doing scientific testing on new alloys to find the best for a given purpose, begin making steel-armed crossbows with metal bolts, start making the ballistae with tempered steel arms too, outfit the army with steel equipment continue breeding domesticated animals, begin reaserching fungi for medical purposes(penecillin ect), continue reaserching steam power, and send expeditions to look for rare resources
build medium sized vessels to settle across the coast.Boost production of soap making for better hygene and set up a propper sewage system far from water wells and make it out of watertight brick walls to prevent leakage.
Work on creating a printing press. Establish a Grand Central Library in the capital to store books, such libraries shall in the future also be built in all important cities. Create public campaigns to propogate education and family values. Incentivise expansion by offering monetary rewards to any families or communities able to aid our nation's development and by building road networks sprawling out from main roadways which will be the arteries and veins of our nation.
Start working on exploiting underground resources in the mountains and use steam power to power conveyors to transport stone and resources out of mineshafts. We can also use steam power to aid with ventilation and air circulation. Have our fleet of 10 ships transport people over to the eastern coast of our bay and establish a port and a city further inland.
Begin working on and creating glass lenses. Create a department of agriculture and department of waterworks. Work on creating more advanced foundries with large blast furnaces and metalworks utilizing our steam engines to drive power hammers. Alongside create steam engine powered mills. Work on creating paper. Work on creating better ways to make textiles and clothing.