Ok... But seriously - that is mainly how the game feels. There is really slight chance that what you have built for past few turns will survive to the next era. The chance for WINING the game is really near to impossible.
*edit. Ach... and by the way - leave the "v"s alone. That is how the font Justinian2 handles "u"s. That's reference to the ancient latin alphabet where U and V were actually one letter (because it's hard to engrave circles and arcs in letters) It was 100% intentionally.