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Rain not only knew he would need a lot of help to organize. The conclusion was to build a nation that gathered enough members and resources to defend themselves if presented with a threat by others on the server.
In doing so, on the 23rd of January 2020 Rain declared<ref name=":0">Declaration of the Industrial Workers of the World https://www.reddit.com/r/CivRealms/comments/et45rk/hereby_declaring_the_industrial_workers_of_the/</ref> the [[Industrial Workers of the World]], an organization of anarchist, socialist, and communist nations on the far northern continent of ArcticaNapistan. Rain chose this area because he understood that trying to contest existing claims would probably get him killed, and the large northern island of Napistan was largely uninhabited compared to the rest of the world.
When the IWW was declared on the 23rd of January, Rain had recruited some players together to join the server and begin setting up communes in the area. And thus the Commune of [[Tolstoy]] and Vescau (Later rebranded as [[Exarchos]]) came into existence. At the time of creation, though, Rain did not possess a computer and thus could not play CivRealms, merely organizing the group and encouraging players to move up to the northern isolated continent to begin their journeys there.
[[File:AnarchistCommunistAssociation.png|thumb|left|the [https://discord.gg/ctkH6qe Anarchist Communist Association], a large Discord community Rain runs. 1,100 members as of July 2021]]
After enough basic organizing had been finished, and Rain had retrieved his gaming computer, he committed to a massive 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. Due to the recruitment drive, the IWW grew considerably in size from where it was previously.
The IWW was overall, a very loose and disorganized group. Not because members did not agree ideologically, but because many did not fully understand the mechanics present on CivRealms which later lead to the easy bombing of Tolstoy by PartyAnimal (later revealed to be [[Vanax]]). Rain and [[EmDubleYou]] were pearled in the bombing incident, as Vanax disguised as PartyAnimal wanted to 'purge the commies'. However a large coalition of fighters from [[Alexandria]] led by TTastic and Albyrt and other forces arrived to investigate and help. PartyAnimal logged before coalition forces got to the bunker, and we were freed.
Rain continued to grind and build until he fully understood the RealisticBiomes plugin, now understanding that most of the continent could not grow any crops, he sought to expand the IWW's claims across Napistan to more land that was arable enough to grow carrots.
Conveniently, a named "Greenland" threatened the IWW if it did not leave its surrounding land in the center-south of the ArcticNapistan on the coast. Only 1-2 days later, the two people who ran Greenland quit the server, but not before giving up their group to a member of the IWW.
The IWW then inherited a large carrot farm in the south arctic. Happy with the details, Rain decided he wanted to build a coastal town near the farm to increase trade and access to arable land, picking a spot that he had thought was only a couple hundred or so blocks from the farm. Rain mined his way underground in an effort to build a railroad towards the new location, but realized the area was bastioned. There are disputes about the events that followed, but the facts are that Rain was attacking a bastion in the area that was owned by MCSPenguin. He was pearled for griefing and attacking the bastioned land.
At some point, members of the IWW, being anarchist who are opposed to authority, started joking that 'they did not elect rain'. Jokes soon turned into a serious discussion on whether or not the ownership over the entire IWW discord and in-game group should be democratically elected. After a vote, despite Rain being fiercely against the general concept of transferring ownership to someone who could simply destroy or ruin the entire project, it was decided that the position of owner should be democratically elected, which prompted a vote to elect a new Server Organizer.
Many folks including Rain, [[Feezor]], [[ian]], [[Pierre]] and [hiduckhi]]Hiduckhi ran for the new position. AInitially, lotthe ofopposition voteswas were well-divided between ianIan, Feezor, and hiduckhiHiduckhi, whichhowever, would have thrownduring the resultscourse inof the favorvote ofthe aopposition Rain win dueresolved to theput rest of thosetheir votes beingbehind for himHiduckhi. However, Rain had issues with the results, claiming that the election was rigged. Rainas placedvoters thesewere actionsallowed onto ([[5492]]).change Thoughtheir therevotes isupon norequest, conclusiveas evidence,per allegationsthe fromcaucus. RainHe would indicateclaimed that 5492by collaboratedallowing withvoters theto oppositionchange totheir manipulatevotes, the5492 resultshad bycollaborated going intowith the Google Form (which was usedopposition to runmanipulate the vote)results, deletingdespite usersthe previousoverwhelming votes, and askingpeople to votesupport for hiduckhi.the Theseability allegationsto havechange nevervotes beenby provenall andbut have no solidifyingRain evidencehimself. Hiduckhi in the end won the election by 1 vote.
Simultaneously, due to the perceived unfairness of the vote by the opposition especially as it became evident that Rain was vote-stuffing by means of inviting new and inactive members from his personal discord to vote in the IWW election, the Crab group (Led by Ian/5492 and Hiduckhi) transferred snitches and bastions for the event that Rain refuse to abdicate.
A large disagreement ensued, in which snitches and groups were changed and exchanged. However, the "crab coup" occurred and hiduckhi went on as leader of the IWW.
Rain ultimately honoured the vote and transferred ownership of the IWW.
====Criticism of the Insurrectionary IWW====
[[File:ProIWWmeme.jpg|500px|thumb|left|A meme created by RainOfPain125 to criticize the new shitter nations that came out of the remnantsDuckapore-IWW ofschism theseveral fallenmonths IWWafter his ousting.]]
After being democratically defeated, Rain was ousted and banned from the IWW after attempting to undermine the new leadership and spamming the IWW discord, characterising the IWW as alike to the NSDAP/Nazis. He left Napistan with two loyal members of thehis IWWsupporters.
====Norlund Controversy====
[[File:AntiNorlundMeme.jpg|500px|thumb|A meme created by RainOfPain125 to criticize the Norlund government at the time. ]]
After fleeingbeing ousted from the IWW, heRain retreated to the mainland continent, wandering, following the advice of [[1234fireball]] who suggested that he could move into Norlund territory, start a new town, and then could petition to join the Norlund government as a new autonomy (or "municipality"). Rain went ahead and followed this advice, leaving the IWW to establishestablishing a new life in the far north-western nation of Norlund, which was almost the same in climate to Napistan, featuring the same boring snow and hills. Rain chose the most useless and isolated region of Norlund, believing nobody would care about the land and leave him alone, and began the [[Paris Commune]], being approved into the Norlund government shortly thereafter.
Soon Rain founded the [[Black Internationale]], a world-widean organization with a heavier emphasis on anarchism and resisting authority. Although he was beginning to get tired of CivRealms, and chose not to mass-advertise the BI as heavily as he did with the IWW. The Paris Commune started to accumulate members, with 10 active members at its peak. It was a mostly underground commune, with a very long and wide tunnel dug at Y=0 to the factory capital of Norlund, Kannin. From there, Rain and the members of the Paris Commune could start to efficiently progress.
However, 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 for who he said he was. The conservative and reactionary portionMuch of Norlund protested this, harassingas Rainthey andwere membersalready offamiliar the Paris Commune, unhinged by the Norlund government. The Paris Commune and by extensionwith Rain remaineddue peaceful, never fighting or threateningto theseprior folksactions. Rain didsubsequently haveposted hislarge funamounts grinding and postingof Anarchist propaganda within the Norlund community, tryingin an attempt to convince theNorlunders lesserof conservativehis populationideology thatand Anarchismits exists,legitimacy. itMany isin aNorlund legitimatecalled movement,this out as spam and thatRainie's itposition couldin the Norlish community workworsened.
Things escalated for Rain when a member of Norlund posted a bounty against him, which was unheard of in Norlund at the time. The non-conservativeSome portionmembers of Norlund protested this, insisting it was out of order to put a bounty on other Norlund citizens, especially one that paid taxes and did not break any rules. The person was convinced to remove the bounty, bybut the damage had been done, as the situation was escalating beyond constant harassment and name-calling, which setsetting the stage for the climax of the escalation to come.
At some point, the Norlund kingdom dissolved as the king could no longer play CivRealms, dubbed the "[https://civwiki.org/wiki/Norlund#The_Death_of_King_Terry_and_Constitutional_Crisis Death of King Terry and Constitutional Crisis]". In his absence, a referendum was announced on choosing a new owner of Norlund. After the results were tallied, a new leader named [[ShamelessShamus]] become the leader of the Norlund government. In a few days, a minister of Norlund declared in the Discord that the Paris Commune was 'now Norlund national territory' because of 'prolonged inactivity' which was simply false. By the time Rain got online to protest this ridiculous decision, the minister who declared such a thing was offline. Rain plead that there was a mistake, as there was 4-5 active members of the Paris Commune and thus it was certainly not "inactive" by any means.
The new king, ShamelessShamus, explained that he could not do anything to help Rain and the only solution was to wait for the minister to come back online. However, only minutes later, the king took this statement back and offered Rain that if he could visit the Paris Commune to view it, he would re-instate Paris's legitimate existence back into Norlund. He agreed to the offer and sent Shamus the coordinates for Paris. Shamus arrived soon after. Rain had taken off his armor and cleared his inventory of items, fearing for the worst, he knew he couldn't fight even if he wanted to as he was not good at PvP. Shamus followed Rain down the stairs and into the Paris Commune. Rain made a left turn, going down a hall to show a pig farm, opening a chest to retrieve carrots to feed the pigs when he was unexpectedly killed and pearled by Shamus.
Rainie was subsequently pearled by the new king, ShamelessShamus in a highly controversial event Rainie claimed was unprovoked and an act of ambush, though this is disputed by Shamus and others within Norlund. This event was dubbed "[https://civwiki.org/wiki/Norlund#The_King's_Crime The King's Crime]". The pearling of Rainand caused a small upset in the nation of Norlund. [This portion of the article is missing information, but any that is added back must be objectional/factual and not so biased or opinionated.]
Rain fervently opposed this action in the Norlund Discord. Shamus's defense was that Rain was a threat to Norlund, which he had no evidence to suggest was true.
Fast forward to the 25th of September, 2020, and the infamous Obsidian Bombing of [[CivCorp]] takes place. In the process, Rain is released from his pearl.
[[File:RevengeOfParis1.png|thumb|left|A screenshot taken from an anonymous user who participated in the Paris uprising against Norlund authorities, showcasing two signs with defiant wording. ]]
[[File:RevengeOfParis2.png|thumb|The aftermath of the Paris Uprising.]]
After Rain was pearled, a new settlement was built directly on-top of the Paris Commune by Norlund. Only days later, the members of the Paris Commune came together one final time in an effort to get Norlundrevenge backon forNorlund. itsRain inactioncoordinated inobtaining seekingthe justicesupplies andnecessary lettingfor itsthe owngrief citizensof pearla each-other.Norlish Rainnewfriend coordinatedsettlement obtaininglocated in the suppliesformer necessaryarea forof the griefParis. Rain sent a member of the Paris Commune (who used to be a member of the IWW) on an anonymous alt on a trip to Napistan. This user met up with a high rank of the IWW who escorted them through long corridors and rings of vaults until they arrived at a package, which was transferred to the Commune member. The package was taken back, and contained all the materials necessary to up-end what was now "Paris".
The other two folks logged on, still inside of the Paris Commune since their last time being online when the unjust pearling had happened. The third arrived and distributed supplies, and they began their work. It turned out that the area was never bastioned, so the grief was evenconducted easier than expected forwith themease. Huge casts of lava were made, on-top of stacks of cobblestone, which would have made removing all of the grief incredibly difficult with the falling-cobblestone feature on CivRealms. Plenty of other parts of the area were destroyed, looted, and generally disrespected, devastating the newfriend population that had settled the area.
In the end, they had spent two days destroying and having fun in the assumed unsnitched Paris area. Although becausedue ofto the newestablished rules on CivRealms, it seemed as though their effortefforts mayto havegrief beenwere in vain, as the rule was, generally, against griefing. Sure enough, afterin the damageform fromdone theby uprisingRain hadand beenhis found,comrades anwas admin immediately abused tobanned. banAll everyoneplayers involved and rolled-backin the damage.grief Althoughwere itbanned. was a huge double-standard, since Norlund had griefed and looted our town, but it didn't matter. Everyone involved, including Rain, was tired of CivRealms at this point and gave up - it was their final act on Realms.
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