Democracy 3 crashes at the start as soon as it launches

I purchased the game and have been unable to play it.

As soon as it starts it crashes. This is in fullscreen, and in windowed mode at full and half resolution.

debug.txt

[17:23:8:143]- ----DEBUG FILE---- [17:23:8:143]- Windows 7 detected [17:23:8:143]- Command Line: "X:\Steam\steamapps\common\Democracy 3\Democracy3.exe" [17:23:8:143]- Command Line argument:[] [17:23:8:144]- Desktop resolution is 2560 x 1600 [17:23:8:147]- Initialising Sound Engine [17:23:8:216]- Attempting to initialise steam [17:23:8:317]- Steam initialisation success [17:23:8:317]- Requesting steam stats... [17:23:8:317]- ...Steam stats requested [17:23:8:317]- Initialising Direct3D [17:23:8:337]- Initialising global vertex buffer [17:23:8:344]- GBufferedFile failed to open file [C:\Users\Drew\Documents/My Games/democracy3/stats.ini] [17:23:8:344]- GBufferedFile failed to open file [C:\Users\Drew\Documents/My Games/democracy3/stats.ini] [17:23:8:349]- GBufferedFile failed to open file [C:\Users\Drew\Documents/My Games/democracy3/tut_seen.ini]
drawdebug.txt:

Initialising 3D Engine in windowed mode Driver : nvd3dum.dll Description : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti DeviceName : \\.\DISPLAY6 Checking For Shader Support NumSimultaneousRTs:4 hal_caps.PixelShaderVersion >= D3DPS_VERSION(2, 0) About to Create 3D Device with width: 1920 and height : 1200 Attempting hardware Vertex Processing Finished initialising 3D Engine Initialising Render target of 512 X 256 rt_minister_compositor rt_minister_compositor Creating shader from file:[data/shaders/dissolve.fx] Creating shader from file:[data/shaders/locked_achievement.fx] Creating shader from file:[data/shaders/ministercacher.fx] window_background.dds 19px_highlight.dds 19px_grey.dds ui_general_textbutton.dds Initialising Render target of 2048 X 2048 rt_transition rt_transition spark_red.dds spark2.dds spark.dds Open Sans Semibold_24.dds Open Sans ExtraBold_36.dds Open Sans Bold_24.dds Open Sans ExtraBold_32.dds Positech-Logo2013_1024.jpg