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[[File:TolstoyRide.png|left|thumb|500x500px|Riding through the Commune of Tolstoy with the founder Zazorg]]

[[File:ACAupdatedLOGO.png|left|thumb|500x500px|the [[Anarchist Communist Association]], a large Discord community that Rain runs and used as the original Discord for the IWW. 1,000 members as of November 2021]]

[[File:IWWTNOadvert.png|left|thumb|500x500px|Advertising propaganda made by Rain in the style of [https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2438003901 The New Order: Last Days of Europe]]][[File:ProIWWmeme.jpg|500px|thumb|left|A meme created by Rain and [[UnknownKarnij]] to criticize the nations that came out of the [[Duckapore]]-IWW schism.]]

[[File:NEWO.png|500x500px|thumb|North-East Waterways Organization, which Rain participated in]][[File:ITS REALLLLLY REAL.png|left|thumb|500x500px|Rain's propaganda criticism against the Neo-IWW or "Insurrectionary IWW" using the IWW logo and the three arrows symbol, representing anti-fascism.]]

[[File:DescentOfTheWobblies.png|thumb|500x500px|Rain's propaganda criticism against the Neo-IWW or "Insurrectionary IWW". Original piece is named [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Descent_of_the_Modernists,_E._J._Pace,_Christian_Cartoons,_1922.jpg Descent of the Modernists.]]][[File:AntiNorlundMeme.jpg|500px|thumb|Meme meant to mock the Norlund regime. |left]]

[[File:RevengeOfParis2.png|thumb|The aftermath of the Paris Uprising.|left|500x500px]][[File:IWWstylizedFLAG.png|thumb|500x500px|A stylized version of the [[Industrial Workers of the World|IWW]] flag. Top is an assembly of [[Industrial Workers of the World|IWW]] fighters [[EmDubleYou]], [[Heyduckhi]], [[OrcishTimmy]], and [[ExcaliburSword]]. Middle is a field of carrots in [[Tolstoy]].

Bottom is a mysterious clearing involving a tower in [[Anvard|Free Republic of Anvard]].]][[File:CommonRainPropaganda.jpeg|thumb|773x773px|Typical Anarchist propaganda that Rain would spread across nation Discords.]][[File:RevengeOfParis1.png|thumb|left|A screenshot taken from an anonymous user who participated in the Paris uprising. |500x500px]][[File:Fuck you piece of shit.png|left|thumb|500x500px|Anarchist propaganda that Rain recycled. The original image says "good" cops and bad cops. However, it was not well received in its original format and thus changed. Rain pushed hard for international solidarity and the struggle against toxic shitter nations, pleading for neutral nations to give up their neutrality and help end the systemic injustice.]]

[[File:Makhnovia.png|left|thumb|500x500px|Flag of [[Makhnovia]], a commune that Rain visited often and thought fondly of.]]

[[File:RainPropaganda2.png|thumb|500x500px|Unfinished propaganda made by Rain that was intended to be in the IWW 1.12.2 client modpack as one of the title screen backgrounds.]]

[[File:IWWpropaganda.gif|left|thumb|500x500px|Advertisement or the IWW on CivUniverse by Rain. Originally the IWW on Universe was going to be portrayed as some sort of hyper-authoritarian totalitarian Orwellian nightmare, while actually being super chill on the inside.]]{{Neutrality warning}}

Rain knew he would need a lot of help to organize. The conclusion was to build an international unifying organization that gathered enough members and resources to defend themselves if presented with a threat by any of the reactionary users or groups on the server.

Rain had already recruited some players together to join the server and begin setting up communes. Rain instructed new members to settle in [[Napistan]], understanding that trying to contest existing claims would probably get the organization killed, and the large northern island of Napistan was largely uninhabited compared to the rest of the world. Thus the Commune of [[Tolstoy]] was founded by [[Zazorg]] on January 7th 2020<ref>[https://i.imgur.com/WZ0bzuA.png Founding of the Commune of Tolstoy]</ref>. Another commune [[Exarchos|Vescau]] (Later re-branded [[Exarchos]]) was founded around the same time. When these communes were founded, Rain did not possess a computer and thus could not play CivRealms, merely helping to organize the group and encouraging players to move up to the northern isolated continent to begin their journeys there.<ref>[https://i.imgur.com/NsOz1e0.png Rain no have PC :(]</ref>

After much of the basic organizing had been finished Rain had retrieved his gaming computer. He committed to a recruitment campaign, utilizing his already existing community the [[Anarchist Communist Association]] along with Reddit posts across many large and small anarchist/socialist subreddits that quickly attracted new members to the IWW.<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/anarchocommunism/comments/eji8xd/wanna_help_setup_a_dank_anarchist_commune_in/ Example of one IWW recruitment post]</ref> Due to the massively successful recruitment drive, the IWW rapidly grew, which presented a major problem to Rain, as many new players would leave early, not understanding Civ and finding it confusing or frustrating. Rain would later make a large Google doc containing all the information about mechanics and plugins, updating and changing it around as he switched from Realms to Universe to Classics.

Rain was almost instantly faced with opposition when the [[Paris Commune]] was accepted into the government. The king at the time did not know who Rain was, and accepted him. Some groups protested this as they were already familiar with Rain due to his prior actions. Rain subsequently posted Anarchist propaganda within the [[Norlund]] community, in an attempt to convince Norlunders of Anarchist ideology and its legitimacy. The opposition in Norlund called it spam and pushed for Rain to be warned or punished, ultimately Rain's position in the Norlish community worsened.[[File:TNAA.png|thumb|500x500px|Original borders of The No State Commune]]