Can you tell apart Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan or am I making up a load of foreign sounding country names?
If Kamachi where to mislabel one of these Central Asia countries as being European possibly the kanji for Eurasia is Japan is Europe Asia. One of the ~stan’s would have been perfect country of choice as they do in fact have platinum mines.
She is a south European princess? Turkish? Assuming they got some fingers in gulf states in this world. They do have some big mines even if they aren't a match for the Swedish mines.
They are taught university level materials as middle scholers. Espers are just built differently.