New player questions

So I saw this game and wanted to try it out. I played around with the game a bit already, but I had some questions.

1. What do you guys do in this game? I know it's a god simulator and I can just do whatever I want, but I'm curious what other people are doing. Hoping to get some ideas of things I didn't know I could do that I could mess around with.

2. When do kingdoms stop progressing? I've had my world for a while now and they have houses, farms, boats, and some other buildings, but it doesn't look like they're progressing anymore. They just run around and do nothing. Can I make them progress more?

3. I was watching some vids and I remember seeing someone talking about like "humanized" animals? Like a cat kingdom with a leader and they have infrastructure and stuff like that. I can't find the vid anymore, but is that possible? I'm not sure how to make that happen.

4. Is there any way I can actually manage the characters? Like if I want to force characters to change genders? I tried spawning just 2 humans on an island, but they were both male so I had to do some dragging and dropping around to get one male one female only.

5. Are there any fun things to do outside of destruction stuff? I don't really want to blow stuff up. I'd rather see the kingdoms develop and stuff.