Now, if someone could come up with procedures that could make your civilisation develop and build itself based on dictates and pressures applied to it from outside by the player, that would be a real God game in my opinon.
After all, a 'God' doesn't drop huts from the sky, environment does dictate where to settle, how to live and communicate and even what to learn to a certain degree. I would certainly get satisfaction from watching a society build itself around external influences, though I can understand how many people would find that boring, I find the idea fascinating.