[sokoloff]

Those are quite different lengths in practice. 99 is less than some individual humans have lived. 999 is longer than any* country has continuously lived.

If I have a 999 year leasehold, that's the same as ownership in practical terms as my ownership goes away when the government fails and is replaced/taken over/overthrown.

In tech specifically, a 99 year lease is practically permanent as well. (1925 was before the first RF transmission of a television picture.)

* Maybe Japan is an exception here.

[actionfromafar]

Contenders: Denmark, Hungary, China, Czechia, France, England and a bunch of others depending on how you count, like Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, Sweden etc.

[lesuorac]

Nobodys claiming no group of people lived in Denmark, Hungary, China, etc for 999+ years.

They're claiming none of their governements is over 999 years old.

Denmark's constitution is from 1849 [1].

Hungary's constitution is from 1949 / 1989 [2].

China's government is form 1949 (when the previous government got overthrown and went to Taiwan) [3].

I'm not going through the whole list.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark#Government_and_politic...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Hungary

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_China