I don't know what I was thinking but I hopped into a Campaign without paying mind to my alliances population. Big mistake. It was a wasteland, mainly because I'm imagining the two other factions that actually had a population were fighting on the other side of the map. Now I'm apparently stuck in my current Home Campaign until I can raise what I believe is the required 15,000 AP to transfer to a new one.
If you make the same mistake I did, don't bother continuing to play in your newly designated Home Campaign. Hop in a different campaign as a Guest, get your required AP (I'm currently only level 10 and when I wasn't in the zerg, it was brutal. Stick with the mob. Its still a drag but I was able to get something like 5,000 AP in a couple hours.), then pay the cost to designate a new Home Campaign.