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 barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 33.547 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 31,387 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 Soda Sales. Average income is a breathtaking 935,619 Petrodollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 7,211,172 per year while the poor average 32,273, a ratio of 223 to 1.

It turns out that money can buy you happiness, farmers sing lullabies to soothe their livestock to sleep, twins move across the country to avoid being accused of the other's crimes, and brains have been removed from lists of best brain foods. 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 312,722^nd in the world and 126^th in Texas for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring -109 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.