Azad is a game from the
Iain M. Banks book "
The Player of Games". This game is meant to be a realistic
simulation of life, so much so, that an entire empire (the
Empire of Azad) uses it as a
discovery engine to decide who most of it's major people should be - everything from minor priests, to the
Emperor himself. Understandly, they're quite good at it.
Gurneu Morat Gurgeh (a citizen of
the Culture) still manages to whoop their asses thoroughly though. (Hey, with a
middle name (
chosen name in the standard
Culture naming
nomenclature) like "
Morat", what do you expect?)