<P> SAMCRO keeps meth traffickers and drug dealers out of Charming, which puts them at odds with the meth - distributing white supremacist Nordics (AKA Nords), headed by Ernest Darby . This earns them respect and admiration from the townspeople, who believe the Sons do more to protect their town than its own police . SAMCRO also has to deal with a rival, Oakland - based motorcycle club (MC), the Mayans led by Marcus Alvarez (played by Emilio Rivera, who also appeared in The Shield as Mexican drug dealer Navarro Quintero). Other groups in SAMCRO's orbit include the San Francisco--based Chinese mafia Lin Triad, led by Henry Lin; the Italian American Cacuzza crime family; the Russian mob led by Viktor Putlova; the Real IRA (aka RIRA) of Ireland, which supplies them with illegal Russian - made guns; the "One - Niners", an African American street gang (which also appeared on The Shield, thus possibly putting the two in the same fictional universe) to whom SAMCRO sell weapons; and various affiliates in the state prison system, where many members of the club have been incarcerated at one time or another . These gangs serve important roles in either being enemies of the clubs or soon to be partners with the MC to bring in more money . </P> <P> In the series premiere, the Mayans torch the facility the SAMCRO used for storing and assembling guns, forcing the club to buy land for and build another facility . The clubhouse, described above, includes a living area with multiple rooms (where members sometimes crash for the night), a fully operational bar, a pool table, a kitchen, a workout room, and the "chapel", a room with an elaborate redwood conference table that has a reaper logo carved into the top, where the patched members meet to discuss club business and vote on major decisions . The club owns a secluded cabin in the woods and a warehouse outside of town (which was bought from but is still maintained by club associate Elliot Oswald), where they have stored weapons and cocaine for the Galindo Cartel . The club also rents an old soda fountain / candy shop that is used as the clubhouse in seasons 6 and 7 after the Teller / Morrow clubhouse was destroyed in an explosion . They also spend time at Red Woody, the club's porn studio (run by Lyla), and Diosa and Diosa Norte, the club's two escort agencies . </P> <P> Sons of Anarchy has commonly been called "Hamlet on Harleys". Similar to Hamlet, Jax's father was usurped by his father's SAMCRO "brother", who then married Jax's mother . There are also intermittent hints at an Oedipal complex between Jax and Gemma, reflecting 20th - century interpretations of the relationship between Hamlet and his mother Queen Gertrude . Jax's murder of the innocent Jury in season 7 mirrors Hamlet's murder of the innocent Polonius in that it ultimately leads to his downfall . </P> <P> Sutter has said of the Shakespeare element, "I don't want to overplay that but it's there . It was Jax's father who started the club, so he's the ghost in the action . You wonder what he would have made of the way it turned out . It's not a version of Hamlet but it's definitely influenced by it ." Ron Perlman believed they were "going to stick to the structure of Hamlet all the way to the end (of the series)." </P>

What shakespeare play is sons of anarchy based on