The Ballon d'Or Excellence of Lionel Andres Messi is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Pep Guardiola with a fair hand, and notable for its zero percent divorce rate, infamous sell-swords, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 27.792 billion Lionel Andres Messians live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The large, corrupt, liberal, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rosario. The average income tax rate is 95.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Lionel Andres Messian economy, worth a remarkable 6,526 trillion Goals a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Soda Sales, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 234,828 Goals, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 925,934 per year while the poor average 40,371, a ratio of 22.9 to 1.

Muggers are complimented on their enterprising spirit, an online tea-bagging epidemic is getting worse and (meta)worse, witches' brews set off Geiger counters, and weather forecasts are accurate but nobody has the bandwidth to view them. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lionel Andres Messi's national animal is the Assist, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Agnostic Pantheism.

Lionel Andres Messi is ranked 5,810^th in the world and 60^th in NationStates for Largest Populations, with 27.8 billion capita.