The Barnes-Free Conglomerate of Ewing Oil Co is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by John Ross Ewing Jr with an iron fist, and remarkable for its otherworldly petting zoo, complete lack of prisons, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 40.691 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, moralistic, 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 41,597 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 1,022,272 Petrodollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 9,535,895 per year while the poor average 9,694, a ratio of 983 to 1.

Citizens try to pass off bottlecaps they found in their backyards as historical artifacts, political dissidents are cut off from essential services, mathematicians are gathering an infinite number of Budweiser Ferrets and typewriters to see if they can recreate the works of Max Barry, and the end of autumn is celebrated with a bonfire of designer bags. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force. 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 132^nd in the world and 1^st in Texas for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 168,130.28 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.