  We explain how a $SU(N_c)$ gauge theory, decoupled from the standard model
and with a high-lying strong coupling scale, can incorporate apparently
unrelated cosmological features, such as Inflation and dark matter, using
well-understood dynamics from Quark-Gluon Plasma Physics. In our scenario, the
evolution of the universe is throughoutly hot: Inflation occurs due to the bulk
viscosity peak during the mixed phase to deconfinement, while dark matter is
composed of weakly interacting glueballs formed in the same phase. We
parametrize the temperature dependence of the EoS and the viscosity expected
from gauge theory, solve the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) equations and
compute the number of efoldings as a function of the free parameters of the
model.
