You're only talking about a very, very small slice of the population - geographically centered around maybe 3 or 4 cities. This is absolutely not the case in reality though.
I had an awesome visual representation that eventually made a lot more sense when I started doing some GL programming. Everything in front of me, on it's surface, was made of triangles. I could see those triangles were made of infinitely smaller triangles, ad infinitum. It was absolutely beautiful.