I am playing insane map with all the players plus one custom. So that's 8 and I make 9, right?

The diplomacy screen has me # one in power, economy, military, no. 2 in research. I think no. 4 in population and no. 5 in influence.

None of this make a huge amount of difference at this point in the game, but I happened to look in the victory box and I am rated #1 of 9. Is there more than one kind of influence in the game? I think there may be influence as it applies to the council of planets (sic) separate from the cultural influence in the game.

If this is two different influences it might be a good idea to distinguish between the two in some way.