The Barnes-Free Conglomerate of Ewing Oil Co is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by John Ross Ewing Jr with an iron fist, and renowned for its deadly medical pandemics, smutty television, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 24.174 billion Oilers are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dallas. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Oiler economy, worth an astonishing 19,478 trillion Petrodollars a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Gambling. Average income is a breathtaking 805,765 Petrodollars, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 4,394,487 per year while the poor average 75,721, a ratio of 58.0 to 1.

Military spending recently hit a new high, distrust of taps has many people bathing only with bottled mineral water, barbed wire entanglements and guard towers surround the Dallas Natural History Museum, and citizens are permitted to carry concealed handguns. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Ewing Oil Co's national animal is the Budweiser Ferret, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is the Holy Capitalism.

Ewing Oil Co is ranked 50,854^th in the world and 52^nd in Texas for Most Extreme, scoring 23.89 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.