Santa Claus is not only Santa Claus. He is also a human being. Therefor he is worried for his pension plan and has a hard time concentrating on his job. He cries out for help.
In Sweden the form of a pyramid is used to describe the pension system. And who knows Maybe it was the other way around; that the Egyptians, the Azteks and the Chinese built their pyramids to illustrate a really good pension system.