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 smutty television, frequent executions, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 35.471 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 tiny, corrupt 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 34,309 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 Woodchip Exports. Average income is a breathtaking 967,260 Petrodollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 6,344,090 per year while the poor average 57,746, a ratio of 109 to 1.

Stony-faced prosecutors play loud gangster rap music during court proceedings, fixing attendance at women's matches is a matter of "when they go low, we go high... funding", the breathalyser pledge is a traditional part of marriages in Ewing Oil Co, and soldiers must key in their passwords every time they want to reload their weapons. 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 1,076^th in the world and 3^rd in Texas for Lowest Crime Rates, with 168.93 law-abiding acts per hour.