No significant societal gains, either technological, sociological or artistic are being made, or have been made in recent memory. Your culture has remained essentially as it is for generations. Rulers tend to emphasise maintaining the status quo.
Well-to-Do: These are the upper end of the middle or merchant class in Barbarian and Civilized cultures. They typically own larger homes, have a household servant (a cook and/or a maid), have private transportation, and sometimes travel abroad.
You were abducted by otherworldly beings (planar, fey, fiend or celestial) Moments later, you reappear, but has physically aged 1d10+10 years, has no memories of that lost time, and has not mentally aged even a minute.