RainOfPain125, also known as Rain or Rainie, is the founder of the Industrial Workers of the World on CivRealms and the The No State Commune on CivClassics. Rain is a controversial player due to various events and political stances.

CivRealms

RainOfPain125
	Rain's Skin (c. July 2021)
Personal Info
Known For	IWW Founder, Union Leader
Known Spoken Languages	English
Ideology	Anarchist Communism; Anarchist Syndicalism; Platformism; SynthesisAnarchism; Queer Anarchism
Citizenships Past & Present	Industrial Workers of the World (Founder); The No State Commune (Founder); Paris Commune (Founder); Jevoghnya (Honorary); Guthrie Commune; Wyvern
Civ Servers
First Civ Server	CivRealms 2.0
Iterations played on	CivRealms 2.0; CivUniverse; CivClassic; CivVie;
Contacts
Reddit	RainOfPain125
Discord	Rainie#2672

Rain's first sign on CivRealms

Rain began CivRealms wanting to build, make friends, organize, and in his words “unite the server’s leftists”. His goal on the server was try to “ideologically win”,^{[citation needed]} and decided to build a nation to present as a threat on the server.

Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

On the January 23^rd, 2020 Rain established the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), an organization of anarchist, socialist, and communist countries on the northern continent of Napistan, though the anarchist part is disputed due to later events. Rain chose this area as the northern continent of Napistan was largely unclaimed compared to the rest of the world.

When the IWW was declared on the 23rd of January, Rain recruited players to join the server and began to set up communes in the region, and the Communes of Tolstoy and Vescau, which was later renamed as Exarchos. were established. At the time, Rain didn’t possess a PC and could only encourage players to move up to the northern continent.

North-East Waterways Organization, which Rain participated in

When Rain was again able to play, he moved to Tolstoy. He participated in the excavation of a canal to provide easy travel under the North-East Waterways Organization (NEWO),

The ACA, an anarcho-communist discord server run by Rain and the potential source of attempted voter stuffing of the IWW Elections.

Later, Rain begun a recruitment campaign utilizing the Anarchist Communist Association discord. Along with Reddit posts, the IWW quickly grew despite accusations of spam.^{[citation needed]}

The IWW was a very loose and disorganized group as many did not fully understand the mechanics present on CivRealms. This later lead to the easy bombing of Tolstoy by PartyAnimal with Rain and EmDubleYou were pearled during the bombing. Allies^[who?] came and removed the obsidian and freed Rain and Ems’ pearls, but the city would go into a period of decline.

Greenland threatened the IWW if it did not leave its surrounding land in the center-south of Napistan on the coast. However, players who ran Greenland quit^{[citation needed]} and the IWW extended its claims farther south gaining a carrot farm in the south as a result. While this resulting in a small conflict with farms by MCSPenguin and negotiations were held, Rain decided to try clearing Penguin's bastions in the region. After being caught by Penguin he was pearled. Rain claims that he was trying to build a railroad in the area but these claims have been proven to be false by other accounts. He was pearled for griefing said bastioned land for two weeks.

The IWW decided to use this time to create a new role conduct diplomacy, trade, and organization in the IWW named the "Union Organizer" or UO, a democratically elected position. Many folks including Rain, Freezor, Ian, Pierre, and Hiduck ran for the new position. Initially, the opposition was divided between the latter three initially. However, it was discovered Rain was vote-stuffing by means of inviting new and inactive members from ACA to vote in the IWW election. The result of the discovery of Rain’s voter fraud attempts led to the Crab Coup. Despite his attempts at ballot stuffing the election results did come in, Rain had only gotten 20% of the vote compared to the Crab Coalition’s 80%.

At the end of the day Rain did honor the vote and transferred ownership of the IWW. In spite of this he attempted to undermine the new leadership as well as spam shit tier memes. This ended up with him getting banned from the IWW discord. After which he’d end up making a long reddit post which was received negatively by the IWW and the server as a whole.

A meme created by RainOfPain125 to criticize the nations that came out of the Duckapore-IWW schism several months after his ousting.

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After being democratically defeated, Rain was ousted and banned from the IWW after attempting to undermine the new leadership and spamming the IWW discord. He left Napistan with two supporters.^[who?]

Norlund Controversy

A meme created by RainOfPain125 to criticize the Norlund government at the time.

After leaving Napistan, Rain would end up settling in Norlund. This was suggested by a user named 1234fireball who suggested to him that he should create a town and petition to become a municipality within Norlund. He would end up founding the Paris Commune and the Black Internationale while in Norlund.^[1]

Whiwe the pawis commune was accepted intwo the govewnment itsewf,^[when?] wain wouwd immediatewy face opposition fwom the majowity of nowwund. Whiwe thiws caused widespwead pubwic outcwy, king tewwy of nowwund at the time, weacted with indiffewence. Whewn king tewwy of nowwund couwd no wongew pway civweawms, a wefewendum was hewd in which shamewessshamus became the king of nowwund. As a wesuwt of an awgument awnd annexation of pawis commune tewwitowy, shamus peawwed wain. Thiws was seen as a contwovewsiaw move at the time within nowwund due tuwu wain being a nowwish citizen awnd the peawwing being an extwajudiciaw kiwwing.^{[citation needed]} iwt wouwd come tuwu be known as ""the king's cwime"," wesuwt in king shamus being wemoved fwom powew within nowwund.

Awound the same time as the bombing of civcowp own septembew 25^th, 2020, othew citizens of the pawis commune fought nowwund aftew the govewnment designated the awea tuwu newfwiend homes own top of the pawis commune. Because the awea was nowt bastioned the gwiefing couwd be executed with ease. The pwopewty of countwess newfwiends awnd theiw homes wewe destwoyed as a wesuwt of the upwising. With wain awnd the pawis commune finawwy getting banned fwom civweawms.^[why?]

thumb|the aftewmath of the pawis upwising.

Of couwse thiws isn’t the end. He weft wain’s peaww in a wandom chest in the middwe of nowhewe awnd the peaww wouwd pwoceed tuwu expiwe the next day. Aftew thiws tuwu make suwe thiws didn’t happen again the counciw of wyvewn evicted wain but gave him time tuwu gathew hiws bewongings awnd demowish hiws house.

===guthwie commune===

aftew thiws he’d move tuwu a jungwe with zombie_stwikew whewe they wouwd both pwoceed tuwu secwetwy buiwd an undewgwound commune named aftew woody guthwie. At the same time wain wouwd join the estabwished countwy of camewtem. Though wain was vewy busy with cowwege which pwevented him fwom pwaying often. He decided tuwu spend sowme of hiws pwecious time tuwu visit the fempiwe union.

he’d join the voice chat of the fempiwe union awnd hang out whiwe touwing the nation, untiw membews of camewtem waided the voice chat awnd vewbawwy bewated wain fow minutes, making tens of accusations awnd intewwogating him wandomwy in the fempiwe voice chat, which made wain awnd evewyone ewse thewe vewy uncomfowtabwe, with membews of fempiwe asking thewm muwtipwe times tuwu weave awnd take iwt somewhewe ewse. Aftew a few minutes of scweaming awnd accusing, they ended with saying thawt wain awnd hiws fwiends wewe kicked out of camewtem awnd nowt awwowed bawck fow no weason pwovided, with no evidence pwovided.

wain got own the newves of the civunivewse staff which wed tuwu him being fwequentwy muted own both discowd awnd the civunivewse gwobaw chat. Wain fwequentwy awgued with notabwe pwayew vespasian who was posting content abouwt wace theowy among othew wacist things, wesuwting him being muted awnd the eventuaw wemovaw of the #shitfwinging channew own the civunivewse discowd. Wain awso weguwawwy posted awnd advewtised the iww discowd, howevew aftew an investigation by civunivewse staff in januawy 2021 they fowbade wain fwom advewtising the iww, bewieving thawt the discowd was nowt centewed awound civunivewse.

=civcwassics=

wain joined civcwassics in wate june of 2021. He spent aww of hiws time in owne town the no state commune. Mainwy buiwding awnd having fun with fwiends. He nevew joined othew nations ow did much ewse.

=contwovewsies=

wain has bewn a subject of sevewaw contwovewsies in the civ community awnd iws genewawwy pewceived in negative wegawds at the vewy weast, awnd at the most majowitawian disdain by the civ community at wawge. The fiwst being the events suwwounding the iww ewection awnd how he was hesitant tuwu accept the outcome of a vote he cwaims was wigged.

==="wainofpain" awnd "wainofpain126"===

sometime own civweawms, an unknown pwayew wouwd join own an awt named wainofpain pwetending tuwu be him except espousing wove fow capitawism awnd the fwee mawket.<wef>"wainofpain" own civweawms suppowting capitawism's supewiowity</wef>

anothew incident invowved an account named wainofpain126 joining civweawms pwetending tuwu be wain again, thiws time posting waciaw swuws in the chat. Thiws got the weaw wain in sowme twoubwe with the civweawms staff whom thought he was the owne own the awt, awnd fow sowme time peopwe mistakenwy thought of wain as a wacist untiw iwt was widewy undewstood whawt happened. Many wess obsewvant pwayews wewe pwobabwy foowed because of how simiwaw the usewnames wewe.

=== mcspenguin-wainofpain125 confwict ===

the industwiaw wowkews of the wowwd had wecentwy gained a new tewwitowy named "gweenwand" in the south of the napistan continent which hosted a huge cawwot fawm, aftew the pwevious ownews gave up own civweawms awnd twansfewwed ownewship tuwu the iww. Wain thought iwt was time tuwu cweate a new town named wojava thawt wouwd unite the iww togethew miwitawiwy, economicawwy, awnd powiticawwy, with aww waiwways connecting tuwu iwt. The idea fow the town was weceived weww by most membews of the iww, thus wain went down south tuwu begin. He wanted tuwu cweate the town next tuwu the new cawwot fawm fow easy access tuwu food, own hiws way down he found whawt he thought was the fawm awnd twied tuwu stawt buiwding but a bastion pwevented him fwom doing so.

wain wouwd stawt tuwu bweak the bastion thinking nothing of iwt, because the wand was uncwaimed own the civweawms cwaims map awnd he iww was weww awawe thawt pwevious nations twied tuwu suwvive own the continent yet withewed away. Membews of the iww wouwd pewiodicawwy find abandoned bastions, so wain thought no diffewent in thiws situation. Iwt tuwned out thawt the bastion bewonged tuwu mcspenguin awnd the fawm he was twying tuwu buiwd next tuwu, which he thought was the wecentwy acquiwed owne, was awso penguins fawm.

mcspenguin wouwd gow own tuwu say he caught wain "with smoking gun in hawnd" whewn he found him afk bweaking the bastion, peawwing him own the spot. The dispute waged with the main points own wain's side being thawt the wand was nowt mawked own the cwaims map, thawt he was nevew pwovided actuaw coowdinates of gweenwand's fawm, awnd thawt he asked chat if anyone wived at the coowdinates he was bweaking the bastion at. Mcspenguin's side was thawt wain shouwd nowt be bweaking wandom bastions, thawt penguin shouwd nowt have tuwu put hiws cwaims own the cwaims map, awnd thawt he wepwied tuwu wain's question in chat own hiws awt.

consequentwy wain was peawwed fow two weeks awnd then weweased unconditionawwy. Wain was offewed an eawwy conditionaw wewease if the iww decided tuwu give up twying tuwu wename the continent tuwu anawquistica, but thawt was nowt wain's caww tuwu make since iwt was a democwatic vote by aww membews of the iww, showcasing penguin's wack of cawe fow the ciwcumstances awnd situation.<wef>iww vote tuwu wename napistan tuwu anawquistica</wef>

wainofpain125-nowwund confwict

wainofpain125-acadia confwict

"doxxing" a membew of acadia

showtwy aftew the no state commune was waided by acadia awnd othews, wain had quit pwaying civcwassics. Though he wemained own the w/civcwassics subweddit making comments. Owne day wain noticed own hiws phone thawt he weceived two diffewent notifications tuwu a post he made, both posts containing the same content, but both posts wwitten by diffewent authows. Fwom hiws pewspective he thought iwt was funny thawt he caught someone using theiw awt weddit account, awnd wet the usew know thawt he saw iwt by wepwying tuwu the content with a wink tuwu an image of the two notifications side by side togethew.

Rain argues that he never looked at the account before posting the image, nor did he intend to dox the user. However, his action was seen as an attempt to dox the user, of which this user was from Acadia. As a result of this, people called for Rain to be banned from CivClassics.

Rain counter-argued that he didn't mean to harm, and pointed out that if someone in his situation truly wanted to cause harm that they could. He argued that if his intent actually was to dox this user, then he would have looked through the alt accounts' posts and comments gathering as much details and personal information, compile it together, then publish it publicly - which he did not do.

The CivClassics staff team would temporarily ban Rain for one month. This struck less observant users as weird, because doxers are almost always permanently banned. However, the CivClassics staff team understood that doxing the user was accidental, and no personal details were gathered. To calm the community and at the request of Rain, the CivClassics staff team intervened and made a post on their Subreddit explaining the circumstances and situation surrounding their decision^[2]^[3]^[4]

The user would later go on to say that they would not pre-ban Rain from his server, because "The dox was real but I do not believe it was intended as one."^[5] The alt username and time that the incident occurred will not be added for privacy and safety.

Server Bans

CivRealms

It is rumored that Rain is banned on CivRealms, however no evidence was ever provided to support this claim.

CivUniverse

After CivUniverse closed the extremely controversial owner Ian_X12 decided to ban Rain posthumously for doxing on July 20th, 2021.^[6] This was most likely to try and make himself look "good" at the expense of others, due to his own controversies.

CivClassics

Rain was temporarily banned from CivClassics for accidental doxxing.

Devoted

Rain was banned from Devoted for no reason provided.

CivRev

Rain was permanently banned from CivRev for "Have a good day."^[7]

CivMC

Rain is permanently banned from CivMC for "past activities", most likely because of the Owain incident.

Beliefs

Rain himself claims to be an Anarcho-Communist & Anarcho-Syndicalist, both of which are slightly different in their management of economic affairs. He supports whichever one seems the most fitting for the situation at hand.

He also claims to be a Platformist & Synthesis Anarchist, which may seem like a contradiction. Platformism argues that Anarchists should be grouped together based on a common set of ideas and strategy, while Synthesis Anarchism argues all Anarchists should unite despite their ideological differences. He supports Platformism when possible, and Synthesis Anarchism as a backup to achieve economic, military, and political goals.

Rain also supports Queer Anarchism, aka Anarchism as a means of queer liberation and success. Himself and many of his comrade peers are LGBTQIA+.

Though opponents are quick to point out that his actions generally show different results from what would be expected of an anarchist. Rain’s anarchist leanings have been questioned by many, including folks identify as leftists. Many of his actions have been criticized as they seem contradictory to the principles of any anarchist ideology. One such action includes users such as Hiduckhi who have criticized Rain as being an "Anarcho-Monarchist”. Some would argue that his ideas and beliefs at times are contradictory in nature and/or claim that he is out right lying about his true beliefs in order to gain power, using ideology as a velvet glove.

Quotes

The values and beliefs that the IWW proclaims are as follows -

Liberty & Freedom (Autonomy)

Equality

Fraternity & Solidarity

Direct Action

Free Association

Anti-Imperialism

Anti-Capitalism

Direct Democracy (Collective Autonomy)

Federation (Local Sovereignty, Bottom-Up Initiative)

Open Borders

Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism

Anti-Toxicity & Anti-Bigotry

Anti-Fascism & Anti-Fascist Action

Pro-LGBT+
— Rain during the declaration of the Industrial Workers of the World^[8]

From Yoahtl to Acadia, in every mine and mill, where working men defend their rights, it's there you'll
find Joe Hill, it's there you'll find Joe Hill
"The Copper Bosses killed you Joe, they shot you Joe” says I. “Takes more than guns to kill a man”
Says Joe “I didn’t die” Says Joe “I didn’t die”
And standing there as big as life and smiling with his eyes. Says Joe “What they can never kill went on
to organize, went on to organize!"
For the Union makes us strong! — Rain's Final Speech on CivClassics

Real Life

Rain outside of the Civ genre is a freelance Media & Graphic Designer, he enjoys making Civ propaganda as a way to practice his skills and improve. He also likes to manage and organize communities, almost all of which are political in nature such as the Anarchist Communist Association.

Self-made Artwork

IWW flag
Stylized version of the IWW flag.
Top image of the Stylized flag. IWW fighters EmDubleYou, Heyduckhi, OrcishTimmy, and ExcaliburSword.
Middle image of Stylized flag. A field of carrots in the heartland of the IWW, Tolstoy.
Bottom image of Stylized flag. A mysterious clearing involving a tower in the Free Republic of Anvard.
First logo for the ACA Discord
Second logo for the ACA Discord
Modern logo for the ACA Discord
Advert for CivUniverse IWW
Shitpost advert for the IWW
Advert for the Black Internationale
Mock-up of the Black Internationale advert in Gmod, by Rain's friend FieryBattleHawk
Advertising propaganda in the style of The New Order: Last Days of Europe
Advertising propaganda in the style of The New Order: Last Days of Europe
Alternate version of TNO propaganda
Meme meant to mock the IWW traitors
Meme meant to mock the incompetent Norlund regime
Propaganda criticism against the Insurrectionary IWW
Propaganda criticism against the Insurrectionary IWW
Shitpost against the Insurrectionary IWW
Shitpost 2
Shitpost 3
Shitpost 4
Unfinished propaganda intended to be in the IWW client modpack
Unfinished propaganda intended to be in the IWW client modpack
Unfinished propaganda intended to be in the IWW client modpack
Unfinished propaganda intended to be in the IWW client modpack
Not by Rain but worth documenting (Made by Vajra)