Zog was a very reasonable Dragon.
So, since those merchants from the Northern Domain so highly praised the working conditions they offered,
he gave them those same working conditions.
After the widely popular Northern Factory One team-building exercise concluded, the merchants became colleagues of the workers.
It's just that the specific requirements were a wee bit different.
For example, the merchants had to work 16 hours a day, with no free lunch, no healthcare, and no holidays. But, there were also no overseers.
Because creating a special position just to watch them wasn't very cost-effective.
So, Zog thoughtfully prepared a surveillance spell to be bound to their feet.
If it detected no movement for a period of time, it would deliver an electric shock—the kind precisely controlled to be excruciatingly painful without causing actual injury.
Want to call in sick? No way.
