The Barnes-Free Conglomerate of Ewing Oil Co is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by John Ross Ewing Jr with an iron fist, and notable for its complete lack of prisons, smutty television, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 24.186 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 19,496 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 806,109 Petrodollars, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 4,408,341 per year while the poor average 75,308, a ratio of 58.5 to 1.

Music teachers are commonly seen busking in order to fund their music programs, it's rumored that Marche Noire knows what the nation's generals eat for breakfast, crowded passenger trains are near-silent save for the soft tap of fingers on touchscreens, and referenda can be called for any law at the request of at least one third of the voting population. 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 1,561^st in the world and 3^rd in Texas for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 13,192.27 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.