The Barnes-Free Conglomerate of Ewing Oil Co is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by John Ross Ewing Jr with an even hand, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, smutty television, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 24.533 billion Oilers are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, 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 19,903 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 Gambling. Average income is a breathtaking 811,295 Petrodollars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 3,777,887 per year while the poor average 104,495, a ratio of 36.2 to 1.

The streets are increasingly clogged with poverty-stricken beggars, the nation refuses to provide international aid, no one believes anything until it has been strenuously tested and peer-reviewed, and the nation's entire cultural heritage is being auctioned off to the rich. 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 9,977^th in the world and 15^th in Texas for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring 9,135.54 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.