The Empire of Azad is an authoritarian regime based on the planet of Eä, ruled by an Emperor with total control of the state. Social status within the Empire is determined by the game of Azad, a complex game played in a tournament every Great Year. There are initially 12,000 players in the main series, and the winner of the final game is elected as Emperor of Azad.
The Empire of Azad was an oppressive, aristocratic society corrupted by sexism, xenophobia and imperialism. There are three Azadian sexes; male, female, and apex. The apex is the biologically and socially superior sex and exercises sexist discrimination against the other sexes.
This article is a stub. You can help the The Culture Wiki by expanding it