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 aversion to nipples, sprawling nuclear power plants, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 35.509 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 34,117 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 960,822 Petrodollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 7,597,994 per year while the poor average 29,637, a ratio of 256 to 1.

The name of the "Butcher of Bigtopia" adorns shirts across Ewing Oil Co, new mothers can pay for their weekly grocery shop with a bottle of breast milk, the Farmer's Almanac is the most popular college textbook, and Oilers caught jaywalking often have their houses seized by the police. 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 5^th in the world and 1^st in Texas for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 960,822.59 Standard Monetary Units.