Multiple Countries for free players

I was wondering, if I start paying and get the right to have both a country and an enterprise, then later stop paying, what will happen to the extra country/enterprise?

Will it simply get deleted?

Also, as a free player, if you conquer another nation will you be allowed to keep your empire indefinitely without paying gold coins for the privilege?

a free player can only have two countries..... a free player can also only have a country or enterprise not both

Right, but I'm asking if that also applies for a paying player who abandons his subscription after a while.

Anyhow, a free player can keep a 2-country empire?

I think once your membership runs out you can keep your original country and maybe one other one but the others will start to cancel out over time. I know for sure that if your membership runs out your enterprise will start shutting down. I once got a message that I would lose two corps a day when my membership was about to run out, but I paid again before that happened.

I am new to the game and I hear some people talk about how things got quite and no one is in chat anymore...

I see what craigwilliamson79 just posted and this could be a reason for players leaving, I mean if ur account runs out and U don't have they money that month or whatever U lose a lot of what U just spent all that time building up.