It's pretty meaningless to me and I've lived in North Carolina. I have no idea what it would be like for another Raleigh to spring up there, plus North Carolina is not a nation state.

I think it's just hard to come up with useful analogies for huge-scale events like this. But yeah, it seems pretty phoned in.

Try this: imagine the crowds you have to deal with going to a major mass-market sporting event, now imagine 8 of those, now make it last for three years, and now set the end date to "indefinite".