The Sligs themselves are essentially slaves, at leas the majority. The Magog Cartel buys them off of Skillya, the Slig queen. They then are trained (not particularly well) and put to work, usually told that if they don't do their job, they'll be shot or whatever. Sligs enjoy their work anyway (so far as we know and have seen in the Oddworld universe), though they sometimes slack off.
Dripik's eyepatch is likely fashion and personal taste, and to make it look like he's been in a war or something.
Slig Barracks was created due to Dripik being a coward, and paranoid of a war or something. Slig Barracks has yet to see a war, and likely never will.
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