The Barnes-Free Conglomerate of Ewing Oil Co is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by John Ross Ewing Jr with an iron fist, and notable for its deadly medical pandemics, zero percent divorce rate, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 27.231 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 23,710 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 Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is a breathtaking 870,711 Petrodollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 6,387,125 per year while the poor average 36,387, a ratio of 175 to 1.

Things are looking up for patients accidentally prescribed erectile dysfunction medication, stone wrist watches that weigh 20lb are the latest trend, celebrity foodies are biting a huge chunk out of the government budget, and the only place where one can see the Oiler cherry tree is in a museum. 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 38,437^th in the world and 80^th in Texas for Most Developed, scoring 68.92 on the Human Development Index.