The Barnes-Free Conglomerate of Ewing Oil Co is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by John Ross Ewing Jr with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and flagrant waste-dumping. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 37.029 billion Oilers are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, 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 36,179 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 Information Technology. Average income is a breathtaking 977,056 Petrodollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 7,708,147 per year while the poor average 30,462, a ratio of 253 to 1.

Government opponents tend to have their patents rejected immediately, police officers that upset their bosses get assigned to 24 hour stakeouts of bike sheds, where there's a will there is usually a password manager, and polygraphs are relegated to the dungeon exhibit in castle museums. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. 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 188,970^th in the world and 62^nd in Texas for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 311.21 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.