Technically I still RP, but mostly I keep myself busy with industry and play other games when it is ticking over. The 'action' in EVE has never really excited me as much as other games, so I generally use EVE as a glorified messenger app with a realistic economy sim mini game.
Still love the background though - also the fact that there are hazards to my every day travel that mean that my business plans need to have all bases covered to survive the pvp I don't go looking for!
Alignment wise I've generally floated at 'ambiguously State/Fed' in that corporate style business ventures and 'futuristic with traits of familiar societies' are my main interests in the factional lore. I tend to just roll about as an independent capsuleer who likes her liberties, thinks it would be nice to extend that to more people but only considers herself obligated to work with and for the people in her alliance.
PS - By ambiguously State/Fed I mean: "not many people really think Ael has anything to do with the Fed". It is true, I am not a contributing Fed role player and I have actually gone against the general feeling of 'what it is to be Fed' (in the words of some). However, Ael is Fed born and raised and mostly feels that the State has a 'fairer system' for a larger number of people but at an extreme price in personal liberty. As stated in Source; Federation citizens are known to go through many belief systems and lifestyles during their time. She loves her freedoms and would love to find a way to preserve individual liberty while harnessing the communal support seen in the State, but being ill equipped to do anything about it, doesn't agonize on the issue and just builds her own organisation to reflect those values.