The Barnes-Free Conglomerate of Ewing Oil Co is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by John Ross Ewing Jr with an iron fist, and renowned for its public floggings, complete lack of prisons, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 27.198 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 23,671 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 870,350 Petrodollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 5,929,376 per year while the poor average 46,476, a ratio of 127 to 1.

The nation operates a "finders-keepers" policy with other nations' citizens, people are careful to avoid hyperbolising that they'd "rather die" than support John Ross Ewing Jr, lonely people are supposed to be cheered up by the many parties that they are never invited to, and the alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit. 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 42^nd in the world and 1^st in Texas for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 53,961.69 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.