官 - GOVERNMENT in Japan = Bureaucrats Stacked to the Ceiling

Readings & Meanings:

カン

government

Common Usage:

警察官

官僚

Examples:

僕の従兄弟は警察官だ。

日本の政治家は三流、官僚は一流、とよく言われている。

Translations:

My cousin is a policeman.

It's said that Japan's politicians are third-rate, but its bureaucracy is first-rate.

Radical:

U-kammuri, the U crown, 宀 is our radical.

The lower part of this kanji shows an accumulation of objects. In this case, it's probably an accumulation of bureaucrats, piled up in an official building (the 宀 shows a roof enclosing those piled-up things).

References:

http://www.kanjinetworks.com/indices/radindex.html
http://www.thejapanesepage.com/node/kanji/7.htm