The Other Way of Kromdraai is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Johannes with an even hand, and notable for its state-planned economy, compulsory vegetarianism, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate, humorless population of 31.727 billion Kromdraaians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Policy, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kromdraai. The average income tax rate is 90.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The enormous but underdeveloped Kromdraaian economy, worth a remarkable 1,288 trillion rand a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, extremely specialized black market in Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 40,610 rand, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Prudishness is on the way out, expats return home to a government devoid of social and environmental agencies, homeowners are evicted to make way for new runways, and disgruntled jocks are forced to play tetris for entertainment. Crime, especially youth-related, is moderate, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Kromdraai's national animal is the wildebeast, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Kromdraai is ranked 254,252^nd in the world and 9,392^nd in Osiris for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -7.04 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.