The Barnes-Free Conglomerate of Ewing Oil Co is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by John Ross Ewing Jr with an even hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, public floggings, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 40.635 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 tiny, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Law & Order. 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 41,512 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 1,021,601 Petrodollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 9,529,639 per year while the poor average 9,688, a ratio of 983 to 1.

Whales in captivity live in little more than glorified goldfish bowls, politicians that report exaggerated crowd sizes for their speeches are dismissed for being delusional, visitors to the famed rainforests are instead taken to vast furniture factories, and travelers often bring empty plastic bottles on Air Ewing Oil Co flights to avoid the pay lavatories. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force. 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 306,968^th in the world and 63^rd in Texas for Most Cultured, scoring 20 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.