GR translation: paper specialties

[Mike Jing]

V130.35-40   Yet the continuity, flesh to kindred metals, home to
hedgeless sea, has persisted. It is not death that separates these
incarnations, but paper: paper specialties, paper routines. The War,
the Empire, will expedite such barriers between our lives. The War
needs to divide this way, and to subdivide, though its propaganda will
always stress unity, alliance, pulling together.

What does "specialties" mean here exactly?
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