I went to the library to read more about Karma resellers. Turns out Karma is big business. Thousands of big and small international companies are involved in harvesting, exporting and reselling Karma - whic is funny, given that Karma does not actually exist. As far as I know, Karma is the single most important non-existant trade good in world economics. The market leader is a corporation called International-Red-Cross-Slash-Crescent. Most of it's "employees" are paid not with money but with Karma, which is preferable from an economical point of view.
Most of these organisations work as follows: First they identify Karma producers, in other words people in need for what humans call "humanitarian help". This may be victims of natual disasters, war, epidemies, famine or whatever. Earthquake regions, like for example Haïti, make wonderful karma harvesting areas. Then the organisations "harvest" the karma: It means bringing to the harvesting area whatever the said producers need: Food, shelter, medication, helpers, teachers, physicians, ... This is usually the most expensive part of the operation. In contrast, the transport of the karma is not expensive at all - remember, karma doesn't actually exist. The karma is the resold to the buyers, often people in "rich" countries or organisations with a perceived karma deficit. In many cases, the karma is even sold before it is harvested, which reduces the need for floating capital of the company. Advancing a nonexisting trade good is cheaper than advancing money.
There are two kinds of Karma production sites: Constant producers (usually poor countries) and "spontaneous" producers (usually sites of wars or natural disasters). The first ones have the advantage of being predictable and reliable, but the latter ones producing large amounts of high quality karma - at least perceived high quality, as people are ready to spend more money for it. Strangely, nobody likes to buy karma from some "forgotten war" or "recurring famine" which goes on forever, maybe because it's perceived as low quality, or simply because the marketing is not there: When it's not in the news, it can't be that bad.
In the library I found a map on international Karma trade, in a paper written by some R&D demon some years ago. The year is not specified, and I don't know whether the map is accurate (many infernal documentation on Earth isn't) but I'll print it anyway:
Note that there are many states importing karma on a yearly base, paid with tax money. This is called "development aid". It's mostly karma produced in countries constantly in need. The importers are usually democracies. The reason is probably that democratic gouvernments need to be perceived as "karmatic" in order to be reelected. Maybe this is pure marketing, or maybe they redistribute some of their karma to their electors. Kind of "karma bribe" for people who vote for them.
One last interesting observation: Many karma producers, particularly in Africa, are in urgent need for weapons. There are many arms traders selling them weapons against money, but nobody has the idea of exchanging weapons against karma. Why is this so ? Some contries even sell karma against money and use the money to buy weapons, but wouldn't it be easier to exchange karma directly against weapons ? For the Red Cross and other karma traders, it would be a big business - not only they could harvest karma, but the sold weapons would also guarantee that the karma production doesn't stop. But yet nobody does it this way. Strange...
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