Orconomics and its sequel Son of a Lich is a competently written, RPG-inspired, mostly comedic, economics-based fantasy satire.
It's a mixture of a few things, as the name might indicate.
The first book is a kind of send-up of the economics and themes of dungeon-raiding RPGs and literary works based on them. Parties of heros, in this world, are sponsored by investment banks and other forms of capital who receive a share of their profits. But plundering "evil" people for money is a pretty corrupting activity, and the Heroes Guild is willing to apply "evil" to people who get in their way. It's irresistibly Randian, in a way; literal looters are the heroes of many RPGs, and this gets looked at askance. But it's also not entirely Randian -- the, um, racism of RPG settings is pretty clearly criticized.
The second book, similarly, is a very close retelling of the 2008 financial crisis, except with insurance on being raided by evil forces -- "Collateralized Threat Obligations" -- being the risky instrument that triggers everything.
It is a comedy, but... for me, at least, some of the humor just didn't land quite right. For instance, in the first and second books fantasy marketing departments (Orc, and Undead, respectively) feature prominently. But they didn't really... go anywhere with them. The gags seemed repetitive -- shooting for Terry Pratchett, and not quite landing. Granted, you can be very good and not be Pratchett.
For instance. In the book "Nove's Laws" relate to how if you say something that could be a foreshadowing -- "This is going well, I think we're gonna make it" -- something is bound to go wrong. This is kinda funny. It wasn't funny the fifth or sixth time it came up, though.
I think, in part, I kinda wish there was more... economics in the book. There isn't actually that much, and it feels like a missed opportunity to have more.
An ok read, not strongly recommended.