I'll take a stab at spicing things up....
When I joined the world (3-4 weeks after it started), Juktas was pretty dead already. At least from my perspective way out in northwest 66. The BP ran out PDQ and the action was pretty lame. I joined Anastasis but was too far out to be of much help or receive much help, so I just simmed for a while. That got too boring so I left the alliance and sorta hoped to get killed and leave Juktas. Of course it only took a day before Anastasis started attacking, but what is so sad, they are struggling to take my cities that I am only halfheartedly defending. Two players bounced their CS, one sent before revolt went red, the other had such a wimpy force it couldn't defeat 375 militia, 5 hoplites, and 188 swords. Three days later and they have only successfully got 2 of my cities. What they should be doing is helping their inexperienced smaller member get those cities, but they are not. I even suggested such to their "leader" of the academy alliance, she couldn't even be bothered to respond.
From the looks of things, Juktas will never reach WW stage, there just aren't enough good players to keep the game interesting.