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 barren, inhospitable landscape, avowedly heterosexual populace, and aversion to nipples. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 27.673 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 minute, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, 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 24,268 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 876,965 Petrodollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 6,790,393 per year while the poor average 29,668, a ratio of 228 to 1.

The nation's diplomatic missives are now delivered via sniper rifle, boot polish is the favourite lip gloss of entry-level corporate workers, foreigners must sell an arm and a leg to afford surgery in Ewing Oil Co, and the automotive industry soaks up huge government handouts. 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 4,606^th in the world and 9^th in Texas for Largest Information Technology Sector, scoring 39,822.9 on the Fann-Boi Productivity Index.