Georgy Kolotov asked J. Zachary Pike:

OK, thank you for answering. I understand this better now. Though I would qualify Orconomics as a parodic, rather than satiric, book, similar to how Discworld is "a world and a mirror of worlds". (Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it true that parody does not have to be of style, or of an author, or of a book? --it can also be of a phenomenon or a trend or of behavior, and this is the meaning I take here).

J. Zachary Pike I see where you're coming from, but I disagree. Satire also holds a mirror up to worlds. Parody, by most definitions I'm familiar with, is usually of a particular work, writer, or genre.

A Song of Three Spirits could be qualified as parody, as it's clearly a retelling of Dickens's Christmas Carol on Arth. But Orconomics and Son of a Liche, while making some jokes at the expense of RPGs, are broadly about poking fun at our economic system (which, by way of clarification, I take as a farce).

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