I hope that you'll find that there's a lot to do here. If RP isn't your thing, well, there's governance and UN and OOC and a whole other boatload of things to jump into. And if it is, well, please fire up the RP, and others will join in.
Anyways, feel free to ask questions and bother people. Most won't bite.
Welcome to the international refugee shelter of the North Pacific. May this large eagle of hope and wonder take you under her wing and guide you your through life with the utmost of excellance.
And yes, this game can be either incredibly fun or incredibly lame, depending on what you want out of it.
What are you most interested in? Gameplay, roleplay? Regional governance? UN stuff? Making your nation be as far up on the daily lists as possible? Invading/defending? Intel? Foreign affairs?
Basically, 95% of this game is outside of Nationstates.net itself, whether it be on offsite forums or the official Jolt forums.