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 frequent executions, infamous sell-swords, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 35.539 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, 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 34,153 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 961,004 Petrodollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 7,406,824 per year while the poor average 33,149, a ratio of 223 to 1.

Blood stains the floors of the execution room and the hands of the state, a third of Oilers are e-certified CEOs, government opponents tend to have their patents rejected immediately, and the world still seems flat to some people in space. 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 59^th in the world and 1^st in Texas for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 55,081.15 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.