Alternate Creature Interpretations (Feel free to add your own additions)

[Sizzlefoot]

One fine sunny day, a group of Feral kobolds discover that people don't fear highway robbery nearly so much as they fear taxes.

The next day, there are no Feral kobolds anywhere -- they've all become Civil, specifically Civil Servants, and even more specifically they've all become bureaucrats in the Imperial Revenue Service.

These days, you'll see about 50% of all audits performed by formerly Feral kobolds. They feed on your fear, and they always eat well.

(The Civil kobolds in the IRS feed on the geysers of gratitude generated simply by the fact that they're not Feral kobolds.)

The idea of a little scaly dog-lizard-dragon-man-thing in the IRS deeply disturbs me.