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 ubiquitous missile silos, infamous sell-swords, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 37.083 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, 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 36,248 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 977,503 Petrodollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 7,766,621 per year while the poor average 29,503, a ratio of 263 to 1.

There has been a series of riots between local cannibals and health food advocates, two inland cities have unveiled their new desalination plants, there's a literal nanny state for the legions of children taken by social services, and strange men lingering in offices distributing television sets is a basis for a system of government. 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 340,125^th in the world and 109^th in Texas for Most Pacifist, with 0.91 cheeks turned per day.