@sqrt9 The reincarnation isn't real in this story. It's just a social construct to protect the upper class.
When a criminal dies, the government doesn't hunt babies from the rich. They only hunt babies from the poor.
If you're rich enough, when a great figure dies, your baby gets dibs on the reincarnation as long as the timing is approximately correct.
Even if reincarnation is real, the entire tracking system is heavily flawed to begin with.