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 aversion to nipples, suspicion of poets, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 28.849 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 25,836 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 895,582 Petrodollars, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 4,935,295 per year while the poor average 82,280, a ratio of 60.0 to 1.

Travelers often bring empty plastic bottles on Air Ewing Oil Co flights to avoid the pay lavatories, it is a silent spring in Ewing Oil Co, John Ross Ewing Jr can't hear a thing when the unwashed masses throw rocks at the new state limousine, and the government's new priority is citizens' access to cat videos. 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 45^th in the world and 1^st in Texas for Highest Wealthy Incomes, with 4.94 million Standard Monetary Units.