On earth2- pre Infinite Crisis their world was indeed moral opposites- doing good things was an arrogant vice, being a criminal was normal and just as we think of justice as a good thing, the populace of earth2 thought injustice was normal. Being a 'do gooder' was a vice.
And, accordingly just as the bad guys always loose in mainstream DCU stories- and the structure of the story is always so that, eventually the heroes will come through...
Well if you haven't read it I'm not going to go into any more detail.