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Brazil has servers by the dozen, and I think the official RO server is still kicking. Ragnarok was incredibly popular here in its time, and still is to an extent.
Official servers are plagued with bots and have excruciating rates, but you can always come back to your account and expect it to still be there, specially if you're on iRO, kRO, jRO.
Private servers tend to run the spectrum of "unstable and flooded with bots" to "stable with no bots at all", but they generally have better rates and have a few convenient adjustments which, again, depending on the server can be "extremely minor" to "complete overhaul".
Personally, decent rate servers like NovaRO, which is 25x25x10x, are not grindy like official servers while still offering a decent rate of progression that won't leave you overwhelmed.
NovaRO in particular is surprisingly stable, has an all around good, sizeable and active community, and is as said before regularly updated, currently at 16.2.